Professor Tim Kasser has studied how our values – what you think is important in life – affects our feelings, and how materialistic thinking increases depression and anxiety. Here’s the extracts from our conversations that I quote:
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Here he discusses how he integrated this into his own life:
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Dr Vincent Felitti is an expert on childhood trauma and conducted pioneering research into how it can cause depression (and other problems) later in life. Here we discussed it:
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His colleague, Dr Robert Anda, explains:
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Professor Richard Wilkinson is, with his wife Professor Kate Pickett, one of the leading experts in the world on the effects of inequality and humiliation on mental health. Here’s the snippet I used from our conversations:
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