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Can the failures and human limitations of psychotherapy and psychotherapists really be blamed for our current cultural chaos? For our raging mental health crisis here in America? I am referring to psychotherapy rather than psychopharmacology, though in practice today these two different but potentially complementary treatment approaches have become inextricably intertwined.

How Modern Life Contributes to Mental Health Challenges

Modern life has become exponentially more chaotic, challenging, coarse, scary, stressful, trying, complex, and, at times, infuriatingly difficult to manage. Anger, rage, resentment, destructive behavior, and violence are pervasive in American culture, and this evil is spreading across the globe. Hatred and hostility are running rampant. Racism, misogyny, fascism, genocide, mass shootings, terrorism, and political assassinations are on the rise.

People are frustrated, furious, discouraged, distressed, disoriented, disillusioned, and desperate to find meaning and purpose, peace of mind, to feel some sense of security, belonging, power, recognition, and significance, and to learn new and more creative ways of dealing with the deeply disturbing and perilous vicissitudes of post-modern and post-pandemic existence.

When confronted daily with such unprecedented polarization, negativity, violence, and global pandemonium, human beings instinctively seek to make sense of the seeming absurdity or senselessness, to find ways to restore and sustain equilibrium, nurture their soul, maintain their........

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