The Happiness Cure

Why You're Not Built for Constant Happiness, and How to Find a Way Through

By: Anders Hansen

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Paperback | 14 March 2023

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Million-selling wellbeing guru and psychiatrist Anders Hansen's breakthrough guide to understanding why the human brain isn't evolutionarily wired for happiness - and how we can take practical steps to feel better.

Why do we feel so bad when we have it so good?

Your ever-changing, remarkably dynamic brain consists of 86 billion cells with at least 100 trillion connections. It can store the information equivalent of 11,000 library books. So if it can manage all this, why can't it do something as simple as making you feel happy all the time?

In The Happiness Cure, TedX speaker and psychiatrist Anders Hansen traces our brain development back to the early days of ancient man, explaining why humans as a species aren't biologically wired for happiness. The brain hasn't developed to feel good, but to survive by constantly planning for the worst - anxiety - and occasionally withdrawing as a self-defence mechanism - depression.

He argues that improving our body literacy of our hunter-gatherer brains can help us to better understand our experience of the mental health issues so many of us face, and that a biological outlook on our emotional lives can help us to pinpoint exactly what makes us happy. By understanding where we've come from, we can learn to find a long-term sense of meaning and realistic, lasting contentment.

About the Author

Dr Anders Hansen is a Swedish psychiatrist, speaker and award-winning author with his own TV series exploring the human brain. His books have sold several million copies and topped bestseller lists around the world. Anders is the winner of the book of the year Big Health Award 2017 and 2019, and Sweden's Mensa Prize 2018. He is the author of The Happiness Cure, The Attention Fix and The Mind-Body Method.

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