Abigail Shrier’s ‘Bad Therapy’ Exposes How Therapeutic Culture Harms Children

‘We’ve never had an American generation that believes less in its ability to rise to a challenge than this one,’ said the author.

Abigail Shrier at a book-signing event hosted by the Lincoln Club in Newport Beach, Calif., on March 20, 2024. Brad Jones/ The Epoch Times

Preventive mental health therapy for children may be doing more harm than good—and there’s research to prove it, author Abigail Shrier suggests in her new book “Bad Therapy.”

“What you might not know is that the stuff that travels under the headline ‘mental health’ is really harmful for kids,” she said at a recent book-signing event hosted by the Lincoln Club at Newport Beach. “I’m telling you that according to the best psychological research available, it’s exactly what you would want to do if you wanted to break kids down.”