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Is Our Worship of Consumerism and Technology Making Us Depressed?

By Bruce E. Levine, Chelsea Green Publishing. Posted November 26, 2007.


It would be a lot easier to address the increasing rate of depression among Americans if we weren't so afraid to admit that our consumer society makes us unhappy.
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Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007).

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