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Author Barbara Ehrenreich lambasts 'positive thinking'

A writer has criticised the trend for positive thinking after feeling appalled by what people told her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Smile or Die, told Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman why she considers blind optimism to be a ''delusion''.

Broadcast on Monday 11 January 2010.

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