The rather long subtitle for this book is: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions. Journalist Johann Hari has suffered from depression since he was 18. He has been medicated for it since then - he is now 39. In this book he travels the world finding social scientists who believe that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains, and thus can't be fixed by medication. Instead the primary cause is the way we live today, and in this book he outlines the nine key disconnections that he believes are the causes, and the seven reconnections as solutions. It's a very wordy but nevertheless powerful, groundbreaking book. It's a radical, transformative look at an increasingly common modern issue. A worthy addition to the canon.