Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
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Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health | Sanah Ahsan
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If you spend too much time with a therapist, for instance, building up a complex model of who you are, that model is going to limit what you allow yourself to do.
Aside from the relief Freud offered to the afflicted, he can also remind the rest of us that we are all troubled souls in one way or another, that the seemingly robust and successful types that we envy may, more than anyone, be assailed by feelings of self-doubt and failure. To allow for natural unhappiness in our lives and not berate ourselves for
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The so-called ‘HR-ification’ of interpersonal relations – an appropriate term, given the particularly capitalist bent of its aetiology – involves Insta-therapists encouraging the use of social scripts full of meaningless jargon, such as the much maligned template above, to ‘protect your peace’ and ‘assert your boundaries’ against those aforemention... See more