Do Americans need grief counselors, traumatologists, emotional intelligence coaches, and other experts to guide them through the trials of life? Are our children at risk of psychic harm from strict teachers and competitive games like tag and dodge ball? AEI scholars and best-selling authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel...

It is human nature to sometimes feel sad, frustrated, angry, resentful, or insecure. But human nature is not a pathology in need of a cure.

Will Americans actively defend the traditional creed of stoicisim and the ideology of achievement, or will they continue to allow the nation to slide into therapeutic self-absorption?

Many grief counselors thinkthat Sept. 11 attacks triggered a national mental health crisis; not so.

Drawing on established science and common sense, the authors reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives.

We must recognize the fact that most people do not have the ability or interest to succeed on the conventional academic track.

Ours is an era of grief counselors, workshoppers, self-esteem facilitators, and traumatologists, all steeped in "therapism," a powerful modern ethos that encompasses several unfounded assumptions, including the importance of emotional self disclosure to mental health; the need for most people, including school children, to seek psychological help rather than ethical...

Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel discuss the rise of "therapism" in America.