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Classifying Happiness as a Disorder by Michael Holmes is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document proposes classifying happiness as a psychiatric disorder. It reviews literature showing that happiness has affective, cognitive, and behavioral components, is statistically abnormal, and likely reflects abnormal central nervous system functioning. While acknowledging resistance to the proposal, the author argues happiness meets criteria for a psychiatric disease by forming a discrete cluster of symptoms and potentially reflecting an underlying pathological process, similar to other established
- Author
- Michael Holmes
- Language
- EN