Book · 2024 · Political Science
Bad Therapy
Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
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Bad therapy why the kids aren't growing up Abigail shrier this book is incredible.
Jason Calacanis · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Apr 2024 Listen at 1:02:00 What they say about it
- Praises the book5
- Discusses therapy culture“pushing back against therapy culture”2
The best things said about it
I introduced him to Abigail Shrier of Bad Therapy fame. Great book, by the way.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Sep 2026 There's this amazing book called Bad Therapy.
Abigail Shrier actually just came out with a fantastic book, Bad Therapy.
Ashley St. Clair The Rubin Report · Mar 2024 I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She was wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids, specifically for kids.
Naval Ravikant Modern Wisdom · Mar 2025 Abigail Shrier has come out with this new book called Bad Therapy, basically saying why are kids more screwed up now when there's more mental health resources than anything else.
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Why people recommend it
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier is a nonfiction book that examines modern mental health practices and argues that excessive therapy and over-parenting are harming children and hindering their emotional growth. Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups mentioned introducing a guest to the author and praised the book as great. Later, on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, Calacanis called the book incredible and recommended it for parents, while the host announced the author's upcoming appearance on the show. Shaan Puri brought up the title on My First Million to illustrate that constantly questioning one's happiness and purpose can lead to greater discontent. Joe Rogan recommended the book at the end of an episode on The Joe Rogan Experience, telling listeners to go read it. Ashley St. Clair discussed the book on The Rubin Report while talking about the mental health crisis and societal pressures facing Gen Z. Finally, Jordan Peterson introduced the author on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and prompted her to remind listeners that the book was available for purchase.
Every mention
Jason Calacanis I introduced him to Abigail Shrier of Bad Therapy Fame. Great book by the way. 2
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“I introduced him to Abigail Shrier of Bad Therapy Fame. Great book by the way.”
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“bad therapy why the kids aren't growing up Abigail shrier this book is incredible”
Jordan Peterson Anyways, Abigail has a new book coming out, Bad Therapy, Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up which is slated for… 2
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“Anyways, Abigail has a new book coming out, Bad Therapy, Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up which is slated for release in early 2024 but which is available for purchase now.”
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“When is your book coming out? Now, it's available now. It's available now.”
Joe Rogan so your book it's out right now bad therapy go get it read it I'm going to read it 2
Discussed
“um your new book bad therapy why kids aren't growing up”
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“so your book it's out right now bad therapy go get it read it I'm going to read it”
Ashley St. Clair Yes, so Abigail Shrier actually just came out with a fantastic book, "Bad Therapy." 1
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“Yes, so Abigail Shrier actually just came out with a fantastic book, "Bad Therapy."”
Shaan Puri There's this amazing book called Bad Therapy and it's and this author used this idea that the people who th… 1
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“There's this amazing book called Bad Therapy and it's and this author used this idea that the people who think why and ask themselves all the time, "Why am I not happy? Why am I not following my life's work? Why Why am I not following my passion? This should feel better. This doesn't feel better." Those people are actually”
Megyn Kelly Abigail Shrier wrote a book about this recently, __ bad therapy. 4
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“Abigail Shrier wrote a book about this recently, __ bad therapy.”
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“Abigail shrier wrote a book about this recently uh bad therapy”
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“like uh Abigail shri's recent recent book uh bad therapy you got the trans student who the more kindness and like dark Darkly lit room comforting spaces you provide this kid the more depressed the kid gets”
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“Abigail shrier writes about this in her new book bad therapy about how that this is the wrong directive”
Chris Williamson Abigail Shri wrote a book bad therapy yeah and I fundamentally disagreed with a lot of the ideas in it 2
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“Abigail Shri wrote a book bad therapy yeah and I fundamentally disagreed with a lot of the ideas in it”
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“there's a lot of criticism and skepticism at the moment about therapy and therapy culture Abigail shrier recently wrote a book called bad therapy she went on Joe's show she came on this show”
Libby Emmons Abigail Shrier wrote a whole book up about this bad therapy and there but there's amazing people like Laure… 2
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“Abigail Shrier wrote a whole book up about this bad therapy and there but there's amazing people like Lauren Delano and and Cooper Davis and stuff that are trying to create different models for mental health things”
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“um you know which was such an interesting project to to to read through it shows that um and also Abigail shrier has come out with this new book called bad therapy basically saying why are kids more screwed up now when there's more Mental Health Resources than anything else”
Dave Rubin So let's just start with the controversy first because what you write about here in "The Transgender Craze"… 1
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“So let's just start with the controversy first because what you write about here in "The Transgender Craze" is really like, the hot topic of the day and the thing that seems to get the most people in hot water.”
Katharine Birbalsingh Abigail Shrier in her excellent book Bad Therapy, also mentions this sort of thing, where they want childre… 1
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“Abigail Shrier in her excellent book Bad Therapy, also mentions this sort of thing, where they want children to have the freedom that they had when they were growing up.”
Naval Ravikant I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She was wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against… 1
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“I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She was wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids, specifically for kids.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
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“Abigail Shrier, author of Bad Therapy, a fantastic book, is going to be with us with a very special surprise guest.”
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Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“So in in in researching Bad Therapy, I first of all, I started out with a totally different hypothesis. I knew that we were these kids were getting more mental health intervention than any generation prior, the rising generation.”
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“So to take one example, you know, I interviewed a woman I've I've known for a long time who runs a major named Evelyn. I call her Evelyn in the book who who runs a major cellular biology lab at one of our nation's premier research institutions.”
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“I got a actually an email from a woman who loved my last book and she was a child psychologist from a very trained and very well-trained and very good school. She's in her 60s and she really wanted to be of help with my new book, Bad Therapy.”
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“So how has writing these last two books transformed the way that you live your life? It's it's funny they really have especially this one. This one was much more close to home because it's three kids I'm raising.”
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“- I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is a journalist who I don't have to use air quotes for, a New York Times bestselling author and author of the new book "Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up."”