It happens every day in my psychotherapy office. A client comes in and complains about the state of the world. The climate is heating up, politics has dissolved into name-calling, madmen with mad weapons threaten extinction. It's almost as if they're asking me to do something about it. It's almost as if they've been reading James Hillmann and Michael Ventura's book,"We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse." Hillmann and Ventura wrote their book 33 years ago. It must have been put on the remainder shelf long ago. It never caught on when they wrote it, as the authors might have predicted, because it challenged everything the therapy world held sacred. I'm late to review it because I didn't read it when it came out. I recently read it now because I've been trying to put my finger on what's wrong with therapy and what on earth is wrong with the world. What I found changed how I understand both... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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Monday, September 8, 2025
We've Had 133 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse
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