
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Author and journalist Johann Hari talks about his book, Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed and How to Find Hope, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hari, who has suffered with depression as a teenager and an adult, offers a sweeping critique of the medical establishment's understanding of depression and the frequent reliance on pharmaceutical treatments. Hari argues that it is our lost connections with each other, with our work, and with ourselves that explains the rise in depression in recent times.
By Russ Roberts4.7
42164,216 ratings
Author and journalist Johann Hari talks about his book, Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed and How to Find Hope, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hari, who has suffered with depression as a teenager and an adult, offers a sweeping critique of the medical establishment's understanding of depression and the frequent reliance on pharmaceutical treatments. Hari argues that it is our lost connections with each other, with our work, and with ourselves that explains the rise in depression in recent times.

2,452 Listeners

2,271 Listeners

1,826 Listeners

1,517 Listeners

79 Listeners

990 Listeners

487 Listeners

22 Listeners

6,617 Listeners

549 Listeners

131 Listeners

2,029 Listeners

31 Listeners

738 Listeners

3,365 Listeners

714 Listeners

816 Listeners

8,455 Listeners

447 Listeners

146 Listeners

1,108 Listeners