Debating Modern Therapy Culture & Gen Z - Abigail Shrier - #773
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Abigail Schreier. She's a journalist, writer for the Wall Street Journal and an author. |
| 0:09.0 | Therapy use is becoming more prevalent while mental health is getting worse. |
| 0:13.4 | The question is, are these two things causing each other, or just happening at the same time? |
| 0:18.9 | It's a lively one today as I try to get to the bottom of this. Expect to learn what is happening with modern mental health, |
| 0:25.0 | the typical time frame of mental health for young people, |
| 0:28.0 | what the current statistics are around therapy, |
| 0:30.0 | what kinds of people see therapists the most, if there are any dangers to |
| 0:35.0 | psychotherapy, why there might be an over-diagnosis and pathologization of |
| 0:39.7 | normal human emotions happening, why Abigail thinks there is such an increase in mental health |
| 0:44.6 | disorders and much more. |
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