The Role of Psychotherapy in American Life

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Today's therapists are really the high priests that make these decisions about who to have or not have in your life. The idea of what causes mental illness is also highly problematic because we still live in a culture that's very captured by this much more psychoanalytic, psychodynamic definition of adult outcomes. All of these things have put enormous pressure on the parent-adult child relationship in ways that I think are very problematic.

Joshua Coleman is a psychologist and senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families. He is the author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Joshua Coleman discuss why there is a growing number of estrangements between parents and their adult children, how political identification has increasingly become a source of family conflict, and the best strategies for how estranged parents and adult children can heal their relationships.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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