📘 Stories from the Couch: A Psychologist’s Book Club - Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier

📘 Stories from the Couch: A Psychologist’s Book Club

Featuring: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

What if some of the ways we currently think about mental health are unintentionally making things worse?

Join us for a monthly therapist-led book club where literature, psychology, and contemporary debates meet—inviting thoughtful discussion, critical reflection, and professional connection.

📚 What

A space for psychologists and therapists to come together and discuss books that challenge, inspire, and deepen our therapeutic thinking, ethical awareness, and clinical practice.

July's Book: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

👥 Who

Open to psychologists, therapists, counsellors, coaches, and mental health professionals in the It’s Complicated community who enjoy reflective, respectful, and clinically grounded discussion.

🎙️ Facilitated by

Giulia Germanier, psychologist and founder of the Stories Sarphatistraat Book Club, bringing mental health professionals together monthly to explore the psychological, relational, and societal dimensions of our work.

🗓️ When

Tuesday, 30th June 2026 at 20:00 (CEST)

📍 Where

ONLINE – Live Room on the It’s Complicated platform

💬 Why attend?

In Bad Therapy, journalist Abigail Shrier explores the growing influence of therapeutic culture on children, adolescents, families, schools, and society. Challenging many contemporary assumptions about mental health, emotional vulnerability, diagnosis, and psychological intervention, the book asks whether our efforts to support young people may sometimes undermine resilience, autonomy, and development.

The book has sparked significant debate among psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents. Some view it as an important critique of over-pathologisation and the medicalisation of normal distress, while others argue that it overlooks genuine mental health needs and the realities faced by young people today.

Join us for what promises to be a lively, thought-provoking, and respectful discussion.

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