The Happiness Illusion: How the media sold us a fairytale

The West has never been more affluent yet the use of anti-depressants is on the increase to the extent that the World Health Organisation has declared it a major source of concern. How has this state of affairs come about and what can be done? Television and advertising media seem to know. Wherever we look they offer countless remedies for our current situation - unfortunately none of them seem to work.

The Happiness Illusion explores how the metaphorical insights of fairy-tales have been li...