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One Nation Under Therapy

How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance

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One Nation Under Therapy

By: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
Narrated by: Dianna Dorman
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 Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.

Drawing on established science and common sense, the authors reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. Topical, provocative, and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.

©2005 Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. Americas Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Psychology & Interactions United States Health Emotions Substance abuse

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"[Sommers and Satel] review the relevant literature, letting its conclusions speak for themselves...they don't have to apply spin to be convincing....Well-written, well-informed public affairs argumentation." ( Booklist)
"Sommers and Satel's book is a summons to the sensible worry that national enfeeblement must result when 'therapism' replaces the virtues on which the republic was founded: stoicism, self-reliance, and courage." ( Washington Post)
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I really enjoyed this book, as it opened my eyes to the extent of coddling going on in the American culture because of therapism colluding with the government..

Just as any business, therapism would go to great lengths to advertise itself and try to convince the consumer that he needs what therapism offers. And many people do benefit greatly from the array of services and all the research done in the field of psychology and counseling.

Terapism is big business, and while there's nothing whatsoever wrong with an industry being profitable and promoting its services, there's a problem when it colludes with big government to push its services onto the public, at the public's own expense.

One Nation Under Therapy discusses all the ways in which this collusion is at best wasting a ton of money and at worst creating a weaker less resilient nation.

Brilliant, well narrated and thought provoking

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I always enjoy a look from the other side and this book does exactly that!

Recommend

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