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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not stopped the trend. What has gone wrong with our youth?
In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids - it's the mental health experts. Mental health care can be lifesaving when properly applied, but that is not what's happening. Instead, children experiencing the normal pangs of adolescence and their anxious parents are seeking answers from therapists, who are only too happy to explore what might be wrong - and to make money doing so. No industry seems to turn away from the possibility of exponential growth, and our mental health industry is no exception. It asks children, again and again: How do you feel? Are you sure? By treating the well, it is making them sick, feeding normal kids with normal problems into the mental healthcare pipeline. It is minting patients faster than it can cure them.
Drawing on extensive research and interviews with doctors, parents, therapists and young people, Shrier enumerates the dangerous side effects of unnecessary or poorly executed mental health care. With clear eyes and compassion, she examines ways worried parents who think they must indulge their child's every feeling make matters worse, and she offers liberating advice for raising emotionally resilient and independent children.
Packed with relatable stories, devastating insights, and common-sense conclusions, Bad Therapy is a must-listen for anyone concerned about protecting the next generation.
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- Clare Gallagher
- 07-03-24
Great book
Abigail Shrier has a great literary voice. She tackles heavy subjects in a conversational and accessible manner. I’m a teacher and I loved this. I can relate to so much of it. I’m recommending it to ever
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-24
A convincing polemic.
I found some of the positions a little extreme when she seemed to suggest that therapists are like a cabal seeking only their own career expansion; there really are children and adults who can benefit from some professional intervention, I think. But, on the whole, I thought this book was spot on and really needed to be written, so thank you for putting an articulate voice to misgivings about helicopter parents and therapeutic parenting that I have had misgivings about, as a teacher, for 30 years.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-24
Brilliant
Every parent or person thinking it would becoming a parent should read listen to this book!
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- Sceptical Sorcerer
- 26-03-24
Brilliant
This is, in my opinion, an outstanding piece of writing.
Although it focuse on the situation in the US, most of it is still relevant if your home and school/college/university culture around children is anything like that in the US. Britain's certainly is, adopting many US trends, as does much of the so-called Western world.
It is a sobering and sometimes shocking indictment of the therapy-based treatment of young people and their parents, casting justifiable doubt and scorn at many of their theories, claims and methods.
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- Ivelin Yordanov
- 21-03-24
fantastic book
highly recommended especially for immigrants that moved to west world. kids need mental toughness to survive in the west wokeness
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- Mrs. S. Gittos
- 18-04-24
Wake up!!
A necessary warning voice. What are we doing to our kids?
As a child and adolescent therapist based in the uk and working in private practice, I think Abigail has done her best to show that we must question therapy, something that any good therapist should do. There needs to be another book (that maybe I should write!) about how therapy with young people works.
Let’s stop encouraging ruminations, planting seeds of anxiety and remove the toxic amplifier that is social media.
That can’t be done by a parent alone going against the flow, it needs to be supported by the community.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-24
The best book of 2024
I am giving it five stars because I cannot give more! This book is the wake up call we all need. I suggest it to everyone who is a parent or who ever was or is in therapy. Author provides such needed perspective and a different pov on the everpresent topic of therapy. Listening to this really brought me back to earth reminding me that common sense is still the best rule of the thumb at any situation. Just brilliant!
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- Anonymous User
- 14-03-24
Important work
Make more babies. Raise them good and don’t drug them. This is such an important book for years to Come.
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- jessica jenkins
- 09-05-24
Excellent book
As a parent and someone who works in a secondary school this book really struck a chord. So much of this books rings true in my own experience and I wish every parent or teacher or caregiver, whoever, would read it because we are emotionally handicapping our children and it has to stop. Please read it and pass it on.
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- JP_transactor
- 10-03-24
Logical and convincing
I learnt a lot. Logical and well set out. Evidence based extra extra extra word
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