The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of ChildhoodIs Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

The Anxious Generation:

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood

Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

with

Professor Jonathan Haidt

Author and Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University's Stern School of Business

In Conversation with

David Goodhart

Head of Demography, Immigration and Integration,

Policy Exchange

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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. Grounded in ancient wisdom and packed full of cutting-edge science, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call-to-arms, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves.