The Role of Psychotherapy in American Life

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.

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