Should Our Society Be So Theapeutic?

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“Should Our Society Be So Therapeutic?” Traumatic situations happen everyday in the United States and around the world. In many instances, particularly in the United Stated, counselors descend upon the people in a traumatized area. Should our society be so therapeutic? Most of us meet life head on, accepting whatever happens in a day to-day fashion. W experience the happy times and celebrate. When there are sad times, we mourn. Society should realize that everything cannot be a joyous occasion, nor (thankfully) is everything a tragedy. Society tends to look to therapists or even counselors to tell us why we may be experiencing an uneasy feeling in life instead of making an effort to understand who we really are and why we feel the way we do, on our own. I feel that we, as human beings, have the unique ability to solve problems and cope with our feelings without therapy. In the 1950’s, 1960’s and the 1970’s, all the way back to the beginning of time, people have dealt with problems and tragedies without the need for therapy, Author Paul Johnson called it “The spirit of the American creed.” In the article, “Our Therapeutic Society,” written by Betsy Hart, she wrote that her mother and father were never told to keep a “feelings diary” while growing up during the great depression or fighting in the war. If Hart’s parents dealt with such troubling times, as well as so many others throughout time, why would our generation need so much therapy? I believe the reason for society to hunger so much counseling stems from our need to discover ourselves. This trend started to become mainstream in the 1960’s and the 1970’s within the anti-establishment and hippie movements, and have grown with these movements of people becoming parents and teaching these beliefs to their children, beliefs such as, “we are special and unique” and “how do things make you feel?” These

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