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Camilla Cavendish, a contributing editor and columnist at The Financial Times, gives her review of Bad Therapy: And indeed, reading Bad Therapy made me realise, for the first time, that some of the parenting books I read while my three children were small probably did undermine my confidence in my own instincts.

Feeling unimportant and expendable and abandoned by the person or profession that was supposed to help, leaves a lasting, and for some permanent psychological scar. Perhaps the worst consequence is the refusal to seek life-saving mental health or medical health because of the lasting impact of this type of trauma.

Psychotherapist and interfaith minister Nancy Colier asks and answers this question in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece. Instead of a novel understanding of the term, she simply works from the DSM-5, which considers trauma to be exposure “to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence”.

Abigail Shrier, author of Bad Therapy, shares some thoughts on the rise of “trauma-informed” education.

Another immigrant perspective on Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy.