America the anxious
Subtitle: how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks
By: Ruth Whippman
Contributors: Whippman, Ruth
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781250071521
Subjects: Social conditions; Civilization; Happiness; American National characteristics
Description: The author embarks on a pilgrimage to investigate how the national obessession with happiness infiltrates all areas of life, from religion to parenting, from the workplace to academia. She attends a Landmark Forum self-help course, visits Zappos headquarters in Las Vegas (a "happiness city"), looks into the academic "positive psychology movement" and spends time in Utah with Mormons, officially America's happiest people.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain under the title The pursuit of happiness: and why it is making us anxious by Hutchinson, Penguin Random House HK"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to America: obsessed with happiness, but nobody's happy; title: Personal journey? it's not all about you; title: Happiness for sale: self-help America; title: Workaholics; title: "I don't care as long as he's happy": dispatches from the parenting happiness rat race; title: God's plan of happiness; title: I'm not a happy person, I just play one on facebook; title: Positive psychology (or if you're not happy, it's your own fault, you lazy schmuck); title: Star-spangled happy.