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100. Patreon Selects: Is Good Therapy Just the Absence of Bad Therapy?

Very Bad Therapy

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The Myers Briggs Theory of Personality Tests

The author argues that personality tests are based on dominant cultural norms of their time. She says they were developed in the forties and fifties, when women's right to vote was only a few decades old; trans rights weren't even a thing. "This is where it shifts, i think, to therapy and bad therapy," she writes.

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