E391. The Dark Side of America's Therapy Obsession | Jonathan Alpert - Walk-Ins Welcome

Podcast: Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy · Conversations with people from all walks of life.

Opublikowano: 2026-05-21

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 quietly become one of the most divisive forces in American life. They also discuss political bias in t...