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Brian Kilmeade Show

Is "Therapy Nation" Creating an Anxious, Fragile and Divided Generation?

Brian Kilmeade Show

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4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Author and psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert joins guest host Mary Walter to look inside his groundbreaking book, Therapy Nation. Alpert pulls back the curtain on how modern therapy has shifted from a goal-oriented process into a permanent lifestyle, explaining how pathologizing ordinary bad days has inadvertently bred a culture of extreme fragility, self-absorption, and division across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention all passengers.

0:04.2

The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.

0:10.5

Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.

0:17.9

Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:21.6

Trains on Uber. Trains on Uber.

0:23.4

Joining us is Jonathan Albert.

0:25.8

He is a therapist.

0:27.0

He's the author of Therapy Nation,

0:29.7

how America got hooked on therapy

0:31.5

and why it's left us more anxious and divided.

0:35.9

You can find him on exit, Jonathan Albert with a tea. Jonathan, thank you so much

0:40.7

for joining me. Mary, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. This is great. So, because I will tell you,

0:48.0

so I'm a big fan of therapy. I think everybody needs it because everybody's messed up in their

0:51.7

own little way. We all got our baggage, right? And then when we have problems later in life, we can't figure out why. So I think

0:57.1

everybody needs a little bit of therapy. But as you point out, you point out of something that

1:03.2

I didn't realize. Like, all, we have had so much therapy as a nation that people now talk

1:09.7

like they're therapists all the time people social

1:12.4

that people will psychoanalyze you on X based from eight cents eight words you put together in a

1:17.2

sentence and I personally blame Dr. Phil and Oprah for this phenomenon but why does everyone

1:23.5

now think are we are we not all running around like little mini psychotherapists?

1:32.9

I know. Isn't it annoying when people say, my therapist says, I feel like those are the most annoying words anyone can utter. But yeah, Dr. Phil and Oprah certainly brought this into modern

1:40.2

culture, but that seems like a long time ago at this point. And now we have therapists who,

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