Therapy, like so many things under late capitalism, has become a tool for personal branding, writes emmaladyrose. And thus, it is ripe for manipulation.
It’s even on reality TV shows like “The Bachelorette,” on which Monday night a male contestant discussed the “trauma” of being cheated on and the ways the structure of the show has forced him to face his past.
This might seem like a good thing. And in some ways, it is. Language gives us the ability to name real experiences and point to their importance. Instead of being taboo, seeking therapy has become a badge of honor in many circles, especially among young people. But this linguistic proliferation has also left a lot of room for weighty, complex terms to be misused, appropriated and even weaponized.
You can see this dynamic in Hill and Brady's alleged text exchanges. According to those screen grabs, one of Hill’s boundaries is that Brady can’t “surf with men,” a behavior that he has already defined as inappropriate and unnecessary. Never mind that Brady is a professional surfer or that surfing is an overwhelmingly male field or that such a boundary would inevitably hinder her ability to thrive professionally or that he knew all of these things before they began dating.
Boundary-setting, like all therapeutic tools, is most useful when deployed by a professional who can tailor advice and care to a particular patient’s needs and help them put that advice into practice. And even therapists are human beings, Hurwitz stressed, which means they are “just as prone to influence” from the larger culture as anyone else might be. There is no exact science to human relationships.
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