Johann Hari on Lost Connections

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Author and journalist Johann Hari talks about his book, Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed and How to Find Hope, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hari, who has suffered with depression as a teenager and an adult, offers a sweeping critique of the medical establishment's understanding of depression and the frequent reliance on pharmaceutical treatments. Hari argues that it is our lost connections with each other, with our work, and with ourselves that explains the rise in depression in recent times.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.6	Institution. Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and
0:17.8	find links down there information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives,
0:23.2	but every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econtalk.org. We'd
0:30.3	love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is August 11th, 2021 and my guest is journalist and author Johan Hari.
0:42.9	His latest book and the subject of today's conversation is Lost Connections,
0:47.8	Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope. I want to warn listeners, listening with children,
0:52.2	today's episode is likely to deal with a number of adult themes. Johan, welcome to econ talk.
0:57.5	Oh, I'm so excited to be with you. I had this slightly weird feeling because I've listened to
1:00.6	your voice so much. I feel like I've slipped into my own iPhone. That's kind of strange.
1:05.2	Other than that weirdness?
1:07.2	It's great to talk to you. The book is fabulously interesting. It touches on a number of themes.
1:15.6	We've talked about here on the program. Parts of it I am not as enamored with, but all of it has
1:21.8	thought provoking. The overall themes of the book are extremely important. Extremely interesting.
1:27.9	I would remind listeners this is not a medical program. We're not giving medical advice.
1:32.4	Take everything you hear here with a grain of at least one. Maybe more than one grain of salt.
1:37.3	But it's a very, very interesting set of topics that you've chosen to write about.
1:43.3	I want to start with your own personal story. You write about your own abouts and challenges of
1:48.8	depression and your use of antidepressants. Please give listeners and viewers a little summary of
1:54.4	your own. How you came to be interested in these themes.
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