Therapy: The Cunning Opiate

by Chōkōdō Shujin

Chōkōdō Shujin explores how modern therapy has fostered a culture of dependency, leading to the rise of domineering women and emasculated men.

Increasingly, therapy is viewed as the only legitimate solution to the various dilemmas that confront the modern psyche, from the most banal to the genuinely vexing. With this, small indignities are unduly magnified, and what would have been deemed unworthy of complaint a century ago is now regarded as an insurmountable “trauma” to be endlessly reflected upon — although the modern parlance for this is, and I say this sardonically, “worked through.” The “work,” however, rarely ceases. Here, we see a world of contrived tragedies.