Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
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Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
The sadness, the dramas, the fractures of other people’s lives as well as the ascensions and the celebrations of other people’s lives. We have done this forever: project our repressed wishes on the lives of what we can call “familiar strangers.”
Delia Cai • Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
It’s very important to show that therapy is a highly relational, nuanced, and contextual conversation. That is very different from what you get on TikTok or IG or your friends in armchairs.
Delia Cai • Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
On one hand, there is an importance in gaining clarity when you name certain things. On the other hand, there is a danger that you lose all nuance, that you’re basically trying to elevate your personal comments and personal experience by invoking the higher authority of psychobabble