Bad Therapy

‘A pacy, no-holds barred attack on mental health professionals and parenting experts … a thought-provoking, though uncomfortable, read’ - Camilla Cavendish, Financial Times

‘A message that parents, teachers, mental health professionals and policymakers need to hear’ - Hannah Barnes, New Statesman

‘A brave and brilliant book … compelling and groundbreaking’ - Stella O’Malley, Sunday Independent

‘Shrier’s trenchant critiques of trauma-focused therapy, social-emotional learning curricula, and other well-intentioned practices are essential reading for parents, teachers, and mental health professionals’ - Richard J. McNally, professor of psychology at Harvard University

‘Shrier persuasively and forcefully demonstrates how mental health professionals (and some parents) often make things worse for the kids and adolescents they aim to help. With splendid writing and thought-provoking analysis, she offers a compelling vision for how to make things better’ - Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of psychological science at University of California, Irvine and former president of the Association for Psychological Science

‘A dazzling combination of investigative reporting and storytelling. A groundbreaking book’ - Gerald Posner, award-winning investigative journalist and author of Pharma

‘A well-researched and engaging exploration of therapy’s limitations and potential harms, and a powerful critique of a culture in which ‘traumatic’ describes anything from horrific abuse to your new laptop going on the blink’ - Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD, associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

‘Abigail Shrier is the smartest and most courageous reporter in the country. There’s a high cost to telling the truth, but for parents and kids, the rewards are beyond measure. Five stars’ - Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer at The Atlantic

‘Terrifying and thought-provoking’ - Hannah Barnes

Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a BPhil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.