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基本信息·出版社：St. Martin's Griffin
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2006年06月
·ISBN：0312304447
·International Standard Book Number：0312304447
·条形码：9780312304447
·EAN：9780312304447
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals. Today---with a book for every ailment, a lawsuit for every grievance and a TV show for every conceivable problem---we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life’s challenges.
Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how “therapism” and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives, with a host of troubling consequences, including:
*The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hyper-competitive, and depressed schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication
*The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, and addiction
*The unasked-for “grief counselors” who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedy
Intelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing,
One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that “talking about” problems is no substitute for confronting them.
作者简介 Christina Hoff Sommers is the author of
Who Stole Feminism? and
The War Against Boys and is the editor of
Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country.
Dr. Sally Satel is a practicing psychiatrist and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the author of
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine.
Both authors are resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
媒体推荐 “Sommers and Satel’s book is a summons to the sensible worry that national enfeeblement must result when therapism replaces the virtues on which the republic was founded---stoicism, self-reliance, and courage.”
---George Will,
The Washington Post “Sommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique.”
---Diane Ravitch, author of
The Language Police “There are countless reasons to celebrate the new book
One Nation Under Therapy.
---Andrew Ferguson,
Bloomberg.com 专业书评 From the Back CoverPraise for The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Provocative and controversial . . . Sommers's voice is impassioned and articulate."
- Marilyn Gardner,
The Christian Science Monitor "Ms. Sommers . . . makes [her] arguments persuasively and unflinchingly, with plenty of data to support them."
- Richard Bernstein,
The New York Times "This book promises to launch and influence an enduring national debate."
- Mary Eberstadt,
The Washington Times Praise for PC, M.D. by Sally Satel"An excellent study of medicine and society."
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The Wall Street Journal"A straightforward assault on disturbing and dangerous trends that have entered the arena of medical care."
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The New Republic"An extraordinarily courageous, punctiliously researched, powerful new book."
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The Baltimore Sun 文摘 Chapter One The Myth of the Fragile Child
In 2001, the Girl Scouts of America introduced a “Stress Less Badge” for girls aged eight to eleven. It featured an embroidered hammock suspended from two green trees. According to the Junior Girl Scout Badge Book, girls earn the award by practicing “focused breathing,” creating a personal “stress less kit,” or keeping a “feelings diary.” Burning ocean-scented candles, listening to “Sounds of the Rain Forest,” even exchanging foot massages are also ways to garner points.1
Explaining the need for the Stress Less Badge to the New York Times, a psychologist from the Girl Scout Research Institute said that studies show “how stressed girls are today.”2 Earning an antistress badge, however, can itself be stressful. The Times reported that tension increased in Brownie Troop 459 in Sunnyvale, California, when the girls attempted to make “antianxiety squeeze balls out of balloons and Play-Doh.” According to Lindsay, one of the Brownies, “The Play-Doh was too oily and disintegrated the balloon. It was very stressful.”3
The psychologist who worried about Lindsay and her fellow Girls Scouts is not alone. Anxiety over the mental equanimity of American children is at an all-time high. In May of 2002, the principal of Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica, California, sent a newsletter to parents informing them that children could no longer play tag during the lunch recess. As she explained, “The running part of this activity is healthy and encouraged; however, in this game, there is a ‘victim’ or ‘It,’ which creates a self-esteem issue.”4
School districts in Texas, Maryland, New York, and Virginia “have banned, limited, or discouraged” dodgeball.5 “Anytime you throw an object at somebody,” sai
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