For it to be a well-controlled experiment, you'd have to give some of
them $3000 placebo dollars and some of them placebo therapists :^)
--pb
At 12:55 PM -0400 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 8/28/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unhappiness is inevitable
Poverty and work are what make most of us miserable - and therapy is
not the solution
Paul Moloney
Monday August 28, 2006
The Guardian [U.K.]
Recent months have seen the science and politics of "happiness"
endorsed by commentators of all persuasions. Richard Layard - a
consultant to the [U.K.] government - called for a huge increase in
the number of publicly funded psychological therapists. These
therapists, he suggests, would help to combat the personal and social
malaise that seems to be afflicting us at record levels, and their
cost will be more than recovered by savings in benefit payments to
depressed individuals who will be encouraged to return to work.
There ought to be a pilot project: pick 200 unhappy people; and give
therapy to 100, free of charge, and give, say, $3,000 a month (after
tax), no strings attached, each to the other 100, and see which group
gets well faster.
--
Yoshie
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