There is in fact a powerful reason to scrutinize the psychology field: we are in the midst of a mental illness epidemic. Office visits by children and adolescents treated for the condition jumped forty-fold from 1994 to 2003.

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?

We need a firm resolve to resist the temptation to treat healthy kids as miserable mental cases.

Recent years have seen a flood of books and articles pushing the notion that Americans are emotionally damaged. Please.