Author Joe Nucci, MA, says trauma is real, but so is the casual misuse of the term and others used in the therapy culture. His article is timely, considering our industry’s mental health challenges and the effects many experience during shorter days. A licensed psychotherapist, he puts mental health misinformation in context in his material. This article shares insights from his new book, “Psychobabble: Viral Mental Health Myths & the Truths to Set You Free.”
Source: Fast Company, September 30, 2025. Link. The problem is not that therapy has gone mainstream, but that some of the assumptions we have absorbed from therapy culture are actually holding us back from healing, growing, and solving our problems.
Therapy is often marketed as a cure-all for anything life throws at you . . . but there is no pill or therapeutic intervention that can erase all of life’s struggles.”