Scott Galloway asked whether words like 'anxious' and 'trauma' have replaced 'worried' and 'upsetting'. Psychologist Jonathan Shedler says therapy-speak doesn't come from any legitimate therapy tradition, and that it keeps people from describing their own experience.
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…of us that are very upsetting, but we couch this language in an atmosphere of something that requires therapy as opposed to something that requires relationships and a healthy approach to life based on the fact that we all face some version of these things at some point in our life. Your thoughts?
Sure. These are human problems. Some of these things are simply part of the human condition. There's something embedded in what you said that I think is important to disentangle. We live in a culture now where this kind of therapy speak is everywhere, and everything is couched. Nobody's had a disagreement. They got gaslighted. Nobody's upset or irritated. They're traumatized. Nobody in the person's life is just a difficult person to deal with. They're a narcissist or toxic narcissist or narcissist. All this therapy speak. And I want to make two points. I keep reading, and I saw it in one of your, you know, in one of your posts, that this language, this therapy language has somehow escaped from the consulting room and has become pervasive in culture. So, you know, the first point, this language didn't escape from the therapy consulting room. This is not the language of any legitimate bona fide therapy tradition. This is the language of pop culture and internet influence culture. It's not the language of psychotherapy. And everybody, you know, including thoughtful, you know, critical…
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