Smile or Die: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Smile or Die: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

"To write Nickel and Dimed, about how America's working poor live, Barbara Ehrenreich took low-paid work herself. For Smile or Die, her latest instalment on what's eating America, having cancer was the personal starting-point for an investigation into the ubiquitous notion that positive thinking is essential to health, wealth and wellbeing. Positivity and magical thinking may actually make illnesses worse, prompt us to seek wars we can't win, make us waste time and money 'improving' ourselves when the real impediments to happiness lie far beyond our control, and make bankers believe they're benevolent demigods ..."

Hear! Hear!

The Guardian