In the author's opinion, the shift in thinking in the 1970s:

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In the author's opinion, the shift in thinking in the 1970s:

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A.
was a welcome change from the earlier view that depression could be cured by changing circumstances.
B.
introduced greater stress into people’s lives as they were expected to be responsible for their own happiness.
C.
put people in touch with their own feelings rather than depending on psychologists.
D.
reflected the emergence of neuroscience as the authority on human emotions.

Option B is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

See the last paragraph: ‘Since the 1970s, depression has come to be viewed as a cognitive or neurological defect in the individual, and never a consequence of circumstances. All of this simply escalates the sense of responsibility each of us feels for our own feelings, and with it, the sense of failure when things go badly.’