Talk therapy at a crossroads
With Stella O'Malley on anxiety, the culture of optimization, why we embrace our diagnoses, and whether the so-called anti-conversion therapy laws will criminalize talk therapy
To the growing list of things that the most vocal of the present-day transactivists campaign against--comedy, libraries, fiction, feminism, rape shelters, sports divided by sex, biologists, clarity in medical communication—we can now add psychotherapy. The closing of the Gender Identity Clinic at CAMH a few year ago and the firing of Dr Zucker under act…