Johann Hari Knihy

Johann Hari zistil, že neustále presúvanie pozornosti medzi mobilom, televízorom a internetom je ubíjajúce. Po neúspešných pokusoch o zmenu, vrátane trojmesačného vzdania sa telefónu, sa rozhodol preskúmať tému pozornosti na celom svete. Zistil, že naše vnímanie krízy pozornosti je nesprávne; nie je to len osobné zlyhanie, ale dôsledok mocných vonkajších síl, ktoré nás robia zraniteľnými voči korporáciám snažiacim sa získať našu pozornosť pre zisk. Hari identifikoval dvanásť hlbokých príčin tejto krízy, vrátane úpadku predstavivosti a environmentálneho znečistenia. V knihe sa objavujú disidenti zo Silicon Valley, ktorí sa snažia heknúť pozornosť, veterinári diagnostikujúci psom ADHD, a skúmanie favel v Riu, kde všetci stratili pozornosť. Taktiež sa zameriava na kanceláriu na Novom Zélande, ktorá našla techniku na obnovenie produktivity. Kľúčovým posolstvom je, že môžeme získať svoju pozornosť späť, ak sme odhodlaní o ňu bojovať. Kniha mení diskusiu o pozornosti a ponúka cesty, ako ju získať späť.

Depresie a úzkosti sú v celom západnom svete prudko na vzostupe a trápia stále väčšie percento populácie. Tradičná psychiatria ich príčiny obyčajne pripisuje chemickej nerovnováhe v mozgu a ponúka jediné riešenie: psychofarmaká. Lenže každý, kto už tieto stavy zažil, veľmi dobre vie, že samotné lieky síce môžu priniesť chvíľkovú úľavu, ale nič nevyriešia, a tú hlbokú vnútornú bolesť i tak neodstránia. Investigatívny novinár a držiteľ niekoľkých ocenení, Johann Hari, sám od mladosti trpel depresiami a úzkosťami. Keď mal 31 rokov, rozhodol sa, že vyhľadá tých najväčších svetových expertov a zistí, aké sú skutočné príčiny tohto novodobého moru, ktorý sužuje našu spoločnosť. Na svojej ceste za pravdou precestoval neuveriteľných 65 000 kilometrov a stretol sa s tými najpovolanejšími. Postupne zistil, že existuje deväť základných príčin depresií a úzkostí, ktorých uvedomenie a pochopenie vedie k celkom iným riešeniam, než ako by sme očakávali – k riešeniam, ktoré konečne ponúkajú skutočnú nádej.

This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is 'superb journalism and thrilling story-telling' - Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This amazing book will change your life' Elton John'Brilliant' Matt Haig'Wonderful' Hillary Clinton'A game-changer' Davina McCall'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' Zoe BallA radically new way of thinking about mental health. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari ́s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work.

'I learned so much' DAVINA McCALL 'Will help you think more clearly about eating, dieting, health and mental health' JONATHAN HAIDT Over the last decade, an extraordinary scientific breakthrough has taken place. A new kind of drug has arrived on the market, working in an unprecedented way to revolutionise weight loss and dieting. In 2023, Johann Hari began injecting himself with one of the weight loss drugs transforming how we look, feel and live. What began as a personal journey soon took him on an international investigation, tackling some of the most world-changing issues as he asked: Who should be taking these medications? How are they set to change not only the way we think about weight loss, but our economies? What are the benefits – and what are the risks? This is the book to read on the weight loss drugs taking over the world. 'Really important, and very necessary' STEPHEN FRY 'Compassionate, wise and mind-expanding . . . A must read' PHILIPPA PERRY

A deeply personal, expertly researched investigation into the weight loss drugs revolutionising our approach to food from bestseller Johann Hari.