The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Haidt, Jonathan - 2024

Hardback. New. <p><b>‘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<br /><br />'Compelling, readable, remarkably persuasive' <i>Telegraph</i> </b> <br /><b><br />An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author</b><br /><br />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?<br /><br />In this book, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents… Read More