Episode 178: Bad Therapy - Part Two

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Today we finish up our discussion of Abigail Shrier's book, "Bad Therapy." We take on her more wide-ranging critiques of psychotherapy's influence on schools and parenting. Are schools overstepping when they start monitoring the mental health of their students? When did parenting become a specialized technique for the psychologically trained few. When did parents lose confidence in simply raising their children the same way their parents raised them? We take on these and other issues related to Abigail Shrier's book, "Bad Therapy." Ms. Shrier's book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK524HQ7/ Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1514762374/ Music provided by the great John David Kent - https://www.johndavidkent.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:15.2	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:20.8	Welcome back for part two of a discussion on the book, Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier.
0:29.6	Dr. Ken, we got through kind of the first part of the book, which was interesting.
0:35.7	And now we're discussing today, the
0:38.5	psychologist, culture, schools, and parenting that she started in on about chapter four.
0:44.4	Yeah, last time we talked for, what, three hours? I can't remember. It felt like a long time,
0:48.9	but the conversation was just, there was so much to discuss in this book. We'll try to keep it
0:53.9	shorter this time. But yeah, so much to discuss in this book. We'll try to keep it shorter this time.
0:54.8	But yeah.
0:55.4	So the book does talk about therapy and, you know, its effects, it's negative effects.
1:01.5	And then the second part, I think she takes off into more, I think she called it, what did she call it?
1:07.4	Psychologist. Or therapy goes airborne?
1:13.9	Yes.
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:15.1	So it's like what is the effect of this in the culture?
1:22.3	Because, you know, she talks about the psychologizing of schools and the over-psychologizing of parenting.
1:30.0	And so that's a much more, I don't know, it's where she gets more political, I think, in some ways.
1:36.1	Because you have to generalize a lot.
1:39.0	Schools, I'll get an email occasionally about something I've said about schools.
1:42.8	And some teacher will say,
1:49.1	well, we don't do that. Well, where is the we? We are all over the place. And schools are not the same everywhere. And I mean public schools. So this will by definition get a little bit
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