I have been looking forward to reading Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy for a while. I’ve personally dealt with mental illness for a long time. I’m a family physician whose primary professional focus for the past several years has been delivering mental health care to people who previously had no access to it. I’m a parent trying to raise my kids in a cultural milieu that’s… well, a bit crazy. I’ve been observing cultural currents about concepts from psychiatry making inroads into the church for a while. So I was intrigued by a book promising to explain how and why “therapy culture” is making kids these days more fragile and less capable of dealing with the world, so I bought it the week it came out.
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