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

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt
2024 • 401 pages

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