Therapy culture gained momentum in India during and after the pandemic. So many of us have either had our dose of weekly sessions in a psychologist’s chamber or we’re thinking about it. It’s a need. But we wonder how risky or rewarding can the process be.
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Harry may have few equals as a one-man advertisement for the therapy industry
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In recent years, therapy has ceased to be merely a clinical technique. It has become an omnipresent cultural force. When you watch Prince Harry’s on-camera Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming (EMDR) psychotherapy session for his Apple TV+ series with Oprah, it becomes evident that therapy is no longer confined to the psychiatrist’s couch – he has successfully turned it into an entertainment format.
Back in 2004 when I published my study,
Therapy Culture, I was struck by the powerful trend towards an inappropriate expansion of therapy from a clinical setting to every dimension of public life. The medicalisation of human problems ran in parallel with the valuation of public emoting.