Episode #97: Hannah Spier on Why Feminism Taught Women to Resent Men in Marriage
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Hannah Spier discusses the impact of feminism on women's mental health and relationships, particularly in marriage.
In this second conversation with Norwegian psychiatrist Hannah Spier, we're diving into territory that most clinicians won't touch: the rise of personality disorders among women, the feminization of therapy that's made gatekeeping impossible, and why credentials alone won't fix what's broken in mental health care. Hannah doesn't hold back. After years treating patients in outpatient psychiatry, she's watched the diagnostic manual get diluted, differential diagnosis disappear, and an entire generation of women get labeled with disorders they wear like badges of honor. I'll walk you through: ✅ Why Cluster B personality disorders (borderline, narcissism, histrionic, antisocial) are rising—and what's fueling them ✅ How low agreeableness and high neuroticism create the "weaponized emotionality" we see everywhere now ✅ Why the self-esteem movement of the 90s and participation trophies set us up for narcissistic traits ✅ The feminization of therapy—why 85% female therapists means no incentive to gatekeep diagnoses ✅ How secondary gains (attention, accommodation, identity, redemption arcs) keep people sick ✅ Why feminism has trained women to overemphasize their own suffering and…
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