Psychotherapy Can Boost Happiness

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Wed, 12-02-2009 - 4:06pm
Psychological therapy may be much more effective at making people happy than getting a raise or winning a lottery prize, suggests an English study.

Researchers analyzed data on thousands of people who provided information about their mental well-being and found that the increase in happiness from a $1,329 course of therapy was so significant that it would take a pay raise of more than $41,542 to achieve an equal boost in well-being.


That suggests that therapy could be as much as 32 times more cost-effective at improving well-being than simply getting more money, the researchers said.


The study was published online Nov. 18 in the journal Health Economics, Policy and Law.


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Thu, 12-03-2009 - 12:05pm

I can definitely testify about the benefits of psychotherapy.