One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance - Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel

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Written by Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
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Written by: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
Narrated by: Dianna Dorman
Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Format: Unabridged

Release Date:09-10-07

Publisher’s Summary

Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life’s vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one’s native ability to cope with life’s challenges.
Drawing on established science and common sense, the authors reveal how “therapism” and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. Topical, provocative, and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that “talking about” problems is no substitute for confronting them.

What the Critics Say

“[Sommers and Satel] review the relevant literature, letting its conclusions speak for themselves…they don’t have to apply spin to be convincing….Well-written, well-informed public affairs argumentation.” (Booklist)
“Sommers and Satel’s book is a summons to the sensible worry that national enfeeblement must result when ‘therapism’ replaces the virtues on which the republic was founded: stoicism, self-reliance, and courage.” (Washington Post)
Please, no guilt by association, May 2, 2005

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This review is from: One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (Hardcover)

Reviewers have noted that the authors are affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. I suggest that no one take this as having any bearing, pro or con, on the merits of the book. As a unabashed liberal in most matters, I am appalled by what has happened to this country since 1980 and am embarrassed to share a middle initial and surname with the current President. Yet as a clinical psychologist I can confirm much of what Sommers and Satel say about the blight of “therapism” that has overtaken us in the last 30 or so years. Painful as it may be to admit, every now and then there comes a conservative who gets something right. Sommers and Satel are two such. The case they make deserves to be taken quite seriously.5.0 out of 5 stars A book that needs to be seriously looked at, May 9, 2005

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This review is from: One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (Hardcover)
I believe that the review by Hara Marano, posted by another reader, misstates much of what the book has to say. Interestingly, the authors are not at all against psychotherapy per se. They are against a culture which medicalizes certain disorders so as to reduce the sense of individual responsibility for the choices that people make. At the same time, they are against a species of one-size-fits-all turnkey psychotherapy promulgated and administered by what I, for many years, have referred to as the “trauma mafia.” This term may be unfair as many of these individuals are caring and well-meaning. Sommers and Satel maintain that many of these interventions are unnecessary and sometimes have unintentional negative effects in that they may interfere with help naturally present in community and psyche.

Some reviews have mainted that trauma counselors, whom the authors criticize, no longer use those methods that the authors are critical of. Were this only the case! I would…An engaging, provocative, and excellent book, May 2, 2005

Richard J. McNally (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance (Hardcover)

Contrary to the misreadings of some reviewers, Sommers and Satel are not attacking therapy. Indeed, the second author practices psychiatry in an inner city drug abuse clinic. Rather, the authors provide a refreshingly trenchant critique of the inappropriate extrapolation of the therapeutic ethos to settings where it does not belong and may, in fact, be harmful. More importantly, their conclusions are well-grounded in empirical research, as anyone perusing their abundant endnotes can see. “One Nation Under Therapy” will doubtlessly incite powerful emotional reactions, both pro and con. But if it also stimulates critical thought about “therapism” in our culture, it will count as a resounding success.

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