The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Boundlessly wise . . . important and engrossing' The New York Times

‘One of the most important books I've read . . . It's absolutely brilliant' Dr Rangan Chatterjee

'Urgent and essential' Guardian

Acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents is changing our world

From 2010, as teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, unsupervised time online soared while face-to-face conversations with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health.