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Marie-Laure Rives, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia
University.
Assistant Research Scientist, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.
SHARE Monday, October 22, 2012 The depressed America!
The topics of "happiness" and of the obsessive pursuit of Happiness in America have been widely discussed within the last few weeks
- if not months - in many newspapers.
This essay talks about happiness, or more
specifically unhappiness in wealthy countries such as the United States and the counterproductive societal expectations of what a good life is.