MEDIA BLIZZARD: BAD THERAPY Book Launch

Hits from the first two weeks

Dear Reader,

As you might have heard, BAD THERAPY: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, hit #1 in all books on Amazon this week — thanks largely to all of you. Thank you!

Of course, this surprise endorsement from Elon Musk didn’t hurt:

Here’s what I’ve been up to these two weeks. Let me know what you think!

xo,

A

For audio-only pods, listen to Spiked podcast. Listen to Honestly Pod with Bari Weiss.

And if you’re up for podcasts with video, here are some of my favorites:

Finally, reviews:

A beautiful review in the Financial Times:

"Bad Therapy is a pacy, no-holds barred attack on mental health professionals and parenting experts that will upset many therapists. But it asks an important question: why has more mental health treatment for Gen Z not resulted in less depression?"

The Daily Signal called it “gripping” and said:

“BAD THERAPY offers a particularly important revelation by showcasing how schools and medicine have been affected by the mental health focus.” 

New York Post:

“Rigorously reported, heavily researched and filled with enough interviews with child psychologists, teachers, parents and Gen Zers to more than buttress her premise…filled with good old-fashioned bombs of common sense that could have been dropped from Grandma’s little book of wisdom.” –Kirsten Fleming, NY Post

City Journal:

"An astute and impassioned analysis of the mental-health crisis now afflicting adolescents.”—Kay Hymowitz, City Journal

“Shrier’s chapters on the schools’ contribution to this era of bad therapy make the most compelling case for iatrogenesis.” —Kay Hymowitz, City Journal

Free Press:

“Fascinating, urgent … The best journalists are fearless. And that adjective certainly applies to Abigail, whose bravery in following the evidence wherever it leads is what has made her work on some of the most important and controversial issues of the day so essential.” -Bari Weiss, Free Press

Unherd:

“An uncompromising study of therapeutic child-rearing across individual therapy, pedagogy, governmental data-gathering and the culture as a whole.” –Mary Harrington, Unherd

“Bad Therapy takes a sledgehammer to every article of therapeutic parenting and pedagogical faith.”–Mary Harrington, Unherd

Jewish Chronicle: 

“The sheer force of Shrier’s character — her clear-headedness, frankness, and the heft of her research — almost blew my hair backwards, like in a cartoon.” - Zoe Strimpel, Jewish Chronicle

“Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up is about the plague of misery that has overtaken American children and teenagers even as the numbers of professionals there to make them feel better has rocketed. In punchy-as-heck chapters … the data-rich book chronicles the immense harm done to a generation of children, and their parents, by the suffusion of therapeutic intervention.” - Zoe Strimpel, Jewish Chronicle

The New Statesman:

“Punchy, persuasive prose.” -Hannah Barnes, The New Statesman

 “A message that parents, teachers, mental health professionals and policymakers need to hear.” -Hannah Barnes, The New Statesman

The New York Sun

“After I finished Bad Therapy, I told my husband we need to stop accommodating my 6-year-old’s picky eating habits so much and insist he sit at the table through dinner.” -Caroline McCaughey, The New York Sun

The Irish Independent, Stella O’Malley wrote:

“This is a brave and brilliant book.”

“A scathing critique of how society is losing its way under the illusion that mental health treatment is a panacea for most problems in society.”

“With meticulous research and unflinching honesty, Shrier exposes the pitfalls and dangers that have emerged in the US after 75 years of rapid expansion in the mental health industry.”

“An incisive and sharp analysis that delves deep into the tangled web of the mental health establishment among young people.”

“Shrier is an elegant and witty writer and this book is compelling and groundbreaking. Anyone who is trying to make sense of our modern society should read it.”

The Federalist, Maria Keffler:

“If you are raising a child, or teaching a child, or if you know any children, or if you know any of the people who­­­­­­­ are raising or teaching children, get and read this book.”