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UnHerd's Flo Read meets Abigail Shrier.

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Could it be possible that the boom in therapy for young people is harming, not helping, the next generation? UnHerd’s Florence Read spoke to the author of a new book ‘Bad Therapy’, Abigail Shrier, about mental health myths, gentle parenting and the medicalisation of American kids.

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// TIMECODES //

00:00 - 00:56 - Introduction
00:56 - 07:48 - Why the rise in young people in therapy isn’t a good thing
07:48 - 16:53 - The state of American kids’ mental health
16:53 - 22:35 - Is therapeutic culture making kids ill?
22:35 - 25:36 - Children and privacy from parents
25:36 - 29:02 - Side-effects of medicalising children
29:02 - 34:45 - Is this just an elite problem?
34:45 - 39:20 - The rise of therapeutic school councillors
39:20 - 42:44 - What is ‘gentle parenting’?
42:44 - 53:43 - What has caused the rise of poor teen mental health?
53:43 - 57:50 - Gender dysphoria and mental health
57:50 - Concluding thoughts


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