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Bridget discusses the potential negative impacts of the therapy industry with therapist Jonathan Alpert.

Bridget sits down with Jonathan Alpert, therapist and author of Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and Divided, to dig into something most mental health professionals won’t say out loud - that the therapy industry may be making people worse, not better. They cover how therapists are trained to validate rather than challenge, why the explosion of diagnoses tracks more with social media trends than actual illness, and how therapy culture has quie...

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Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Jonathan Alpert

Topics covered

• therapy
• mental health
• social media
• diagnoses
• anxiety
• culture

Keywords

• therapy
• mental health
• anxiety
• diagnoses
• social media
• culture

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and Divided

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