Triggered? Dr Jonathan Shedler on the overuse of therapy speak

Saturday Morning - A podcast by RNZ

Phrases such as 'triggered' and 'toxic' are actually taking us away from understanding our own psychology and that of other people, says psychoanalyst Dr Jonathan Shedler. "This is a language of social media and pop psychology and self-help, this isn't actually the language of psychotherapy," he tells Kim Hill.

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