Leisure: A Problem for Preventive Psychiatry
Abstract
The increased amount of leisure created by our shrinking work week has become a frantic time leading to psychological depression. Our work-oriented ethic, which is anti-pleasure, anti-leisure, and anti-laughter, is perpetuated by our child-rearing practices and educational systems. Preventive psychiatry requires that we change these practices and systems now to prevent an epidemic of depression in the next two decades.
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