unhappiness can have many etiologies.There are some people who ,due to some unfavourable circumstances in early life,make achievement in life ,as an end in itself without catering to the ground realities.ON the other hand,some people escape the realities of life by dampening their cognitive abilities.The latter category of people is more difficult to treat as they have to be taught the desirability of happiness.Still there are others who believe that they have lived all the possibilities that life has to offer.So these people ,like the one with a escapist attitude towards life ,think that happiness is irrelevant to them Due to this attitude of theirs,they are NOT regarded as unhappy in the normal sense of the term.PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF UNHAPPINESS