Bad Therapy, Cultural Seduction, and Children in Crisis - A Conversation with Abigail Shrier 

Dr. Mohler thank you for having Abigail on. What a brilliant conversation about such an important issue! I am part of book club with my 3 young daughters. We be reading and discussing this book for sure!

Thank you for this. Unfortunately this starts early on with parents. I was mortified when I was asked if I was going to write a letter to the school for my child entering kindergarten. Their reasoning was to have their child placed with the "right" teacher. I said, "he'll get who he gets, & he'll learn to deal with it." This is a journey we take together in preparing them for adulthood. We need to allow our children to problem solve & make choices at an early age. I'm tired of seeing grown children at airports with stuffed animals, child-like pajamas, therapy pets, etc...

Dr. Mohler: I want to say, thank you for your practice!

Brilliant conversation. Kudos to Abigail and Mohler. Keep up the great work

Pure excellence on both participants!

I loved this detailed, informative interview. Well done, Albert Mohler and Abigail Shrier.

LOVE this interview!!

She is on point!! As an immigrant to the USA, I have pondered on the same issues I’ve encountered here for the last 20 years. It’s so interesting and bizarre to observe American culture, especially when raising children. Thank you!

Thanks so much for this conversation. My siblings and I grew up with a social worker for a mama. Therapy was always the answer back then. Even now I am one of my sister's much needed sounding board and my brother cut family off over 20 years ago.

Excellent!!!

Another data point of secular culture in general but the government specifically continuing to tear the family apart by disjoining the parents from their children. Fatherless children from the LBJ era of the great society were the spoils of welfare programs by declaring "The government is here to help!" but doing quite the opposite. Now a multi-billion dollar industry never to be reversed. Steely Dan released a tune in 1975 titled Dr. Wu on their Katy Lied album. It's highbrow humor about therapy since all the trendy folks in L.A. had a therapist back then. Quite the trendy SoCal shiny new thing. The hook of the tune is "Are you with me, Doctor? Can you hear me, Doctor? Are you with me, Doctor? Can you hear me, Doctor?...Have you done all you can do?" So back 40 years ago secular pop culture declared this is lunacy. Now in the 21st century full bore, the "professional / doctor" trumps the parent or grandma's counsel as you say here! It's been a long time (as Mohler says, and I agree, only less than 100yrs) coming but now fully embraced by school systems and "child advocates" continuing to push down harder on the gas pedal. They're here to help (wink wink nudge nudge). Just ask them. Mrs. Shrier is right. It costs no money to correct this for a start: Parents be parents! With my two cents added: "...and put that stupid phone down!" Orwell was a little early. It's 1984...NOW!

on the point of a young person going to grandma or to a pastor is that the licensed therapist is going to respect confidentiality. Does anyone think grandma or a pastor isn't going to RUN and rat out the young person?

Did she appear on the show for her first book?

I am a follower of Christ and a psychotherapist and your assumptions are grossly incorrect so I can assume that you are uneducated. The intent of therapy is to treat until resolution and then the client moves on. Additionally, it is the parents responsibility to seek out a therapist who aligns with their values - for them and their children. And your conversation is generalizing to all therapists which is unfair and wrong.

We aren’t letting any authors or teachers talk to the kids & have been boycotting colleges for 3 years

SEL is from the pit.

She is so incredibly incorrect on everything that she has said in regard to therapy causing children to ruminate on negative thoughts and emotions. That is the complete opposite of what occurs in therapy. And healing doesn’t always need to happen with a therapist. She isn’t a psychotherapist, correct??