Posts tagged with  " psychotherapy "

The importance of repression – Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism

September 29, 2021:

by Park MacDougald. The modern West, in his telling, is the first culture in history that has attempted to deny the legitimacy of the interdicts and to live without some form of sacred authority. Therapy is our means of getting away with this denial. The therapeutic ethos teaches us to overcome the guilt and shame, […]

Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History

March 13, 2019:

“What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster. by Tomas Bogardus. This reunion of sex and gender arguably began in Judith Butler’s 1990 book Gender Trouble, when she asked: “Are the ostensibly natural facts of sex discursively produced […]