The limits of therapy - Catherine Shannon's Newsletter
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What's missing when we treat therapy as a magic pill
“Going to therapy” is in right now. It has been for a while. People are obsessed with going to therapy and telling other people to “go to therapy.” The general sentiment is that if you’re not doing it, you really should be. But the goal of therapy is, eventually—one can imagine—to not be in therapy. That’s what my therapist told me, anyway. This isn’t meant to be a hot take on therapy. (In this piece, I’m referring to the “garden variety” talk therapy used to help navigate life’s ups and downs, not therapies used to treat addiction, clinical depression, or other disorders.) I don’t think…
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