Affluenza articles
Top 10 tips to beat back-to-work blues
01/09/2008, The Times
The first weeks back at work after a summer break can be the most stressful of the year. But by rediscovering what is truly important in your life, you can have that contented holiday feeling all year round.
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Britons' homes 'a reflection their self-worth'
31/03/2008, The Times
Pretty well all of us in the top two thirds of British earners conflate the status of our home with our self-worth. The home's architectural merits, its size, location and décor feel like individual personality traits.
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Psychologist's View
01/2007 - 06/2007, Psychologies
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Blind feminism has hurt our children
15/02/2007, The Times
Sure Start is typical of Labour's failures
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How to be a real beauty
03/02/2007, The Times
Oliver James argues that Russian and Danish women are beautiful because they are not hung up about how others see them. And we ask two who should know...
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The sickest show on TV?
28/01/2007, The Independent
Deserving cases beg for money, humiliated by a bunch of image-conscious whizz kids... Can television stoop any lower?
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Infected by Affluenza
24/01/2007, The Guardian
Blair's encouragement of free market capitalism has boosted spiralling levels of British mental illness
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On the money
01/01/2006, The Guardian
Americans and Britons have the highest rates of mental illness. But why? An obsession with wealth has led to an 'Affluenza' epidemic, says Oliver James
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New Labour's love of money is the root of all our troubles
23/10/2006, The Guardian
The Blatcherites' biggest crime is the spreading of the affluenza virus that has led to an epidemic of depression across Britain
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Money, possessions, appearances: it's an illness
12/06/2007, The Times
The psychologist and author blames 'affluenza' - the virus of superficial values - for stress, anxiety and unhappiness among high earners
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Workaholic consumerism is now a treadmill and a curse
02/05/2006, The Guardian
Long working hours and status consumption have the English-speaking world in their grip. They are the bane of all of us
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Moving the Goalposts
03-04/2003, Resurgence
Chasing that ephemeral and elusive state of 'happiness'
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Curse of Comparison
10/1997, Prospect Magazine
Why are so many people unhappy, when we live in a period of unprecedented affluence? An obsessive preoccupation with comparing ourselves to others is to blame. We have unrealistic expectations, which leave us permanently dissatisfied, prone to depression and aggression
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