I've watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It's become what I call coercive compassion. It's disgusting, it's condescending, it's insulting, it's coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.


p. 61 - Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) - The Rape Debate, Continued


I've watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It's become what I call coercive compassion. It's...

I've watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It's become what I call coercive compassion. It's...

I've watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It's become what I call coercive compassion. It's...

I've watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It's become what I call coercive compassion. It's...