Book Review: Tracing the Relational Roots of Happiness

Photo credit: Ruthson Zimmerman via Unsplash. Article by Joshua C. Kendall. Undark – January 13, 2023.

For generations, academics in psychiatry have focused primarily on understanding and treating mental illness. As Sigmund Freud put it in his influential formulation more than a hundred years ago, the goal of psychoanalysis was to transform “hysterical misery into common unhappiness.” Likewise, biological psychiatrists have long studied the neural mechanisms behind major mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia as they have searched for drugs to alleviate the emotional distress of patients. But the study of happiness […]

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