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Our guest today is Jonathan Alpert, Therapy Nation, how America got hooked on therapy

and why it's left us more anxious and divided. That is Jonathan's new

book. And you could say that Jonathan raises the alarm from inside the house that Americans have

become overly reliant on therapy culture to their collective detriment.

And he is raising internal alarms because Jonathan is indeed a therapist.

Thank you, sir, for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Matt, great to be here.

Thanks for having me on.

And those alarm bells should be

really, really loud at this point. And I think to understand how the book Therapy Nation

came to be, we have to go back to 2012. I penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times called In Therapy Forever, Enough

Already. And that's when I first sounded the alarm on my profession, how people were, patients

were just staying stuck in therapy, they were venting, going in every week venting,

but not getting better. And therapists were part of the problem.

They were perpetuating this nonsense.

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