Bad Therapy. Why Kids Aren't Growing Up— Abigail Shrier

Hypertherapeutic Societies Are Raising Immature Adults

The new generations, millennials and Gen Z, have been raised with therapeutic approaches and hyper-vigilant parents who were obsessed with their children's happiness. However, these children are now lonely, anxious, depressed, and insecure young adults. Abigail Shrier states that "members of the new generation are not at all prepared to carry out basic tasks expected of any adult" and "distrust the risks and freedoms involved in maturing."

How is it possible that the generations raised with the most care are the least prepared for adult life? This book attempts to answer a question that concerns all of society, questioning the upbringing of children who have lived surrounded by counselors, psychologists, and social workers, with parent-friends and without the old principle of authority.

In Bad Therapy, Shrier, one of the most insightful and daring thinkers of our time, does not hesitate to point to the mental health industry as a key factor in shaping insecure parents and children incapable of maturing. The author of Irreversible Damage identifies the counterproductive effects of therapies, which have reduced young people to emotionally damaged beings.

"By continuously funneling normal children with normal problems through a massive machine, the mental health industry is manufacturing more patients than it can possibly cure," the author notes in this revealing essay woven from hundreds of interviews with psychologists, parents, teachers, and young people.

Is it time to rethink parenting?

ISBN: 9786075699073