This is a poor understanding of how cognitive and or behavioural therapy works. 

Maybe should have thought about having a couple working class heroes that have had to overcome trauma, rather than two privileged pratts..

A really interesting listen, would have been interesting to have a lefty therapist on the show (there are a lot of us out there!) You might want to check out the Power Threat Meaning Frame work as an alternative to medical diagnosis and a description of how oppression and disempowerment can lead to what are described as mental health diagnoses such as depression or schizophrenia

Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert get on the couch to talk about therapy. Wrangling with how to square their collectivist politics with the introspective work of therapy, they wonder if people on the left are more inclined to seek such treatment, and what role physical exercise plays in their mental wellbeing.

Analysing their own very different experiences of the therapist's couch, the gang also consider the shortcomings of CBT and the twisted logic of positive thinking.

Music: Prince Paul - 'Outroduction to Diagnosis' / The Raincoats - 'Fairytale in the Supermarket' / Gil Scott-Heron - 'The Bottle' / Burial - 'Endorphin' / Bongwater - 'Folk Song'
Books: Kate Pickett & Richard G. Wilkinson - The Spirit Level / Richard Layard - Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

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Produced and edited by Chal Ravens and Matt Huxley. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

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