The anxious generation

by Jonathan Haidt

ISBN: 9780241647660

Published: 2024-03-26

'Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist . . . He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all' Susan Cain 'Compelling, readable, remarkably persuasive' Telegraph 'Urgent and essential . . . it ought to become a foundational text for the growing movement' Guardian From the international bestselling author of The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases? In this book, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers. Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how, between...