Bad TherapyAbigail Shrier
Bad Therapy
by Abigail Shrier · first published 2024
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2024–2025first – last mentioned
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You might be interested in the book 'Bad Therapy' by Abigail Shrier. It's well worth a read. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/198332459 Also 'Free Range Parenting' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6250260-free-range-kids-...
on “Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness” ↗How did a NYT journalist manage to write this entire story without mentioning Bad Therapy, a book on this topic (the over-therapization of kids in general, including in schools) that came out recently? [1] 1: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Therapy-Kids-Arent-Growing/dp/059...
on “Schools May Be Too Focused on Mental Health” ↗…there's a wikipedia page about her. she seems to be a layman when it comes to psychology/psychiatry. and her 2018 book about "Transgender Craze" ... uh, okay. ... https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/bad-therapy-review-fift... """ Much of Shrier’s book is devoted to critiquing Internet Mental Health Culture, [...] I broadly agree with her critiques. [Her] preferred alternative to Internet Mental Health Culture…
on “Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible” ↗'Bad Therapy' does sound in line with GP's thoughts, but I'm not sure it's a high quality book. The author took a real paradox ("More treatment but no less depression: The treatment-prevalence paradox") and chose…
on “Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness” ↗>"Bad Therapy, Why the kid's aren't growing up", but the podcast with the author seemed reasonable. I had this book in my read queue, until I saw a podcast where she basically outted herself as an anti-vax covid denier.…
on “The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]” ↗…it harder for other autists - guy with probable schizoid personality disorder that thinks struggling with people and social issues is just life because everyone is stupid and annoying - guy who read Bad Therapy once and now thinks autism is a tiktok trend - insufferable fedora guy that thinks psych is unscientific - probably secretly has severe depression and is making it everyone else's problem by being…
on “Show HN: Autism Simulator” ↗Pure "woundology" may indeed make things worse. There's another book which I haven't read yet about the dangers of therapy and underestimating the people's intuition and resilience - "Bad Therapy, Why the kid's aren't growing up", but the podcast with the author seemed reasonable. It gives lots of evidences on what you've just said. Just simply living a life, focusing on goals and targets, making…
on “The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]” ↗