Britain on the Couch: Why We're Unhappier Compared with 1950, Despite Being Richer - A Treatment for the Low-serotonin Society - Hardcover
A consideration of the emotional disappointments common to British people of the 1990s which suggests that the way we live induces low levels of serotonin in our bodies, and leaves us unhappy. The author suggests correcting this with the use of drugs and a course of psychotherapy, and reorganising society along the lines of Scandinavia.
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'A fascinating book' --Sunday Times
‘[James’] calm rationality and the care for precise truth shown in his analysis of available evidence about status and politics (sexual and not) reminded me that this book... is about defining, and then seeking, a changed way of life ... his book's time has come’ --The Guardian
‘If anything, more relevant now than it was in 1998’ --London Evening Standard
'Vital questions are explored in this stimulating tract for our times, which deserves to be widely read, especially by those who govern us' --Anthony Storr
'Well worth reading ... the author has recognised important social phenomena which have escaped less astute or honest observers' --Sunday Telegraph
'Oliver James is a necessary and powerful voice in our culture, and Britain on the Couch is a fabulous exposure of the failure of the neo-liberal project' --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler
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‘[James’] calm rationality and the care for precise truth shown in his analysis of available evidence about status and politics (sexual and not) reminded me that this book... is about defining, and then seeking, a changed way of life ... his book's time has come’ --The Guardian
‘If anything, more relevant now than it was in 1998’ --London Evening Standard
'Vital questions are explored in this stimulating tract for our times, which deserves to be widely read, especially by those who govern us' --Anthony Storr
'Well worth reading ... the author has recognised important social phenomena which have escaped less astute or honest observers' --Sunday Telegraph
'Oliver James is a necessary and powerful voice in our culture, and Britain on the Couch is a fabulous exposure of the failure of the neo-liberal project' --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler
Why we're unhappier compared with 1950, despite being richer - from bestselling author of Affluenza, Oliver James
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- PublisherCentury
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0712678859
- ISBN 13 9780712678858
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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