Holy smokes! If you haven’t read Lori Gottlieb’s article in the new issue of The Atlantic, “How To Land Your Kid In Therapy,” do yourself a favor. She’s put together a remarkable overview of the pitfalls of modern parenting, focusing particularly on the relationship between parental over-involvement and the rates of anxiety/depression in their offspring. A practicing clinical psychologist herself, Gottlieb makes a strong case for the culture of self-esteem having produced a supremely narcissistic generation that has serious trouble dealing with disappointment. It’s almost The Incredibles-argument verbatim: when everyone is special, no one is special – instead, we all become a bunch of ‘handicapped royalty’. She also exposes the equally problematic but less discussed parental narcissism that’s feeding the whole process.Read the rest.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
How To Land Your Kid In Therapy
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Z: Appreciate your links to various things, but I suggest that the link to this article in the Atlantic warranted a "language caution" - for your future consdieration. Thank you.
What exactly you're writing is a horrible mistake.
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