{"product_id":"9781632868312","title":"Lost Connections : Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLost Connections\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Johann Hari\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller from the author of \u003ci\u003eChasing the Scream\u003c\/i\u003e, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThere was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLost Connections \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a wonderful and incisive analysis of the depression and alienation that are haunting American society.” —\u003ci\u003eHillary Rodham Clinton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you have ever been down, or felt lost, this amazing book will change your life. Do yourself a favour--read it now.” —\u003ci\u003eElton John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wise, probing, and deeply generous Hari has produced a book packed with explosive revelations about our epidemic of despair. I am utterly convinced that the more people read this book, the better off the world will be.” —\u003ci\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a bold and inspiring book that will help far more than just those who suffer from depression. As Hari shows, we all have within us the potential to live in ways that are healthier and wiser.” —\u003ci\u003eArianna Huffington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through a breath-taking journey across the world, Johann Hari exposes us to extraordinary people and concepts that will change the way we see depression forever. It is a brave, moving, brilliant, simple and earth-shattering book that must be read by everyone and anyone who is longing for a life of meaning and connection.” —\u003ci\u003eEve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is one of those extraordinary books that you want all your friends to read immediately--because the shift in world-view is so compelling and dramatic that you wonder how you'll be able to have conversations with them otherwise.” —\u003ci\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the world's most important and most enlightening thinkers and social critics.” —\u003ci\u003eGlenn Greenwald, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Johann Hari is again getting people to think differently about our mood, our minds and our drug use, and that is something we need a lot more of.” —\u003ci\u003eBill Maher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Depression and anxiety are the maladies of our time, but not for the reasons you think . . . An important diagnosis from one of the ablest journalists writing in the English language today.” —\u003ci\u003eThomas Frank, author of WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eye-opening, highly detailed . . . The book is part personal odyssey, in which Hari gets to grips with the flaws in his own treatment, and part scholarly reflection, where he sifts through the varying perspectives of scientists, psychologists and people with depression . . . Hari is clear about the difficulties of the task ahead and, in offering new ways of thinking, presents not surefire solutions but, he says, 'an alternative direction of travel' . . . A compassionate, common-sense approach to depression and anxiety . . . His book brings with it an urgency and rigour that will, with luck, encourage the authorities to sit up and take note.” —\u003ci\u003eGuardian, \"Book of the Day, 17 January 2018\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bold call for a complete re-evaluation of what is causing the western epidemic of mental illness.” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant.” —\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book has a great deal to offer. \u003ci\u003eLost Connections \u003c\/i\u003eisn't as much about science and mental health as it is about society, and the stories we tell around mental illness . . . This book's value lies in its attempt to change the stories we tell about the depressed and anxious, and perhaps help some of those suffering change how they think about themselves.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLost Connections\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating look at what causes people to be depressed.” —\u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This well-written and well-documented book offers a powerful argument against the pharmacological treatment of depression and raises some provocative arguments. Highly recommended.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Salient and timely.” —\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His comprehensible and penetrating study features extensive research and interviews with everyone from leading scientists and medics to members of the Amish community.” —\u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You might think \u003ci\u003eLost Connections \u003c\/i\u003eis a self-help title but in reality it's a book that aims to change society, not individuals . . .\u003ci\u003e Lost Connections \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and controversial book because it asks questions about the biggest problems we have in the world.” —\u003ci\u003eAttitude Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thought-provoking . . . His comprehensible and penetrating study features extensive research and interviews with everyone from leading scientists and medics to members of the Amish community. This heartening book reveals the mutual social benefits of reconnecting with others and helping them to help yourself. *****” —\u003ci\u003eWestern Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Hari] takes a big, controversial subject, surrounded by strong opinions and taboos, covers it on a global canvas through diligent research and extensive human interaction, and reaches a clear and broadly compelling conclusion.” —\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781632868312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40688664117454,"sku":"9781632868312","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_e28bbc35-339a-43a3-bf0f-db7ac51a26a7.jpg?v=1640319214","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781632868312","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}