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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. Many studies bear out that once basic needs (shelter, nutrition, security, adequate medical care, etc.) But focusing on why people are miserable—and reliving that misery one 45-minute session at a time—in order to get happy became, well, depressing for many in the mental health field.

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