Thrive : how better mental health care transforms lives and saves money / Richard Layard and David M. Clark ; foreword by Daniel Kahneman.

How better mental health care transforms lives and saves money

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]

xvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Original edition first published in the United Kingdom as Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies by Penguin Books Ltd, London"--Title page verso.

PART ONE: THE PROBLEM. -- 1. What's the problem? -- 2. What is mental illness? -- 3. How many suffer? -- 4. Do they get help? -- 5. How does it affect people's lives? -- 6. The economic cost -- 7. What causes mental illness? -- PART TWO: WHAT CAN BE DONE? -- 8. Does therapy work? -- 9. How therapies are developed -- 10. What works for whom? -- 11. Can we afford more therapy? -- 12. Improving access to psychological therapies -- 13. What works for young people? -- 14. Can we prevent mental illness? -- 15. Would a better culture help? -- 16. Stop this pain.

Includes bibliographical references (page 319-366) and index.