One Nation Under Therapy How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance

Self-reliance and resilience are at the core of the American character. But todaywith a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, and a lawsuit for every grievancewe have lost our perspective on lifes challenges and our ability to deal with them. Drawing on scientific evidence and common sense, the authors reveal how therapism and the trauma industry pervade our lives. Intelligent, provocative and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that talking about problems is no substitute for confronting them.

Christina Hoff Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys and is the editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country.

Dr. Sally Satel is a practicing psychiatrist and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine.

Both authors are resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.