Bad therapy: ‘It’s a problem when people go to therapy but don’t actually need it – and it’s a really big problem for kids’
Abigail Shrier’s latest book asks if embedding therapy for children in mainstream culture is doing more harm than good
Abigail Shrier in Los Angeles, California earlier this year. Photo: Dan Tuffs
In the opening chapter of her latest book, American investigative journalist Abigail Shrier details her experience with therapy: “Every week, for a ‘fifty-minute hour’, my therapist lent me her full attention. If I bored her with my repetition, she never complained. She was a pro. She never made me feel self-absorbed, even when I was. She helped me realise that I wasn’t so bad. Most things were someone else’s fault.
“Actually many of the people around me were worse than I realised! Together we diagnosed them freely. Who knew so many of my close relatives had narcissistic personality disorder?”
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