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Saturday, November 21, 2009
 
 
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One Nation under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Date: Monday, April 18, 2005
Time: 2:00 PM — 3:15 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
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Do Americans need grief counselors, traumatologists, emotional intelligence coaches, and other experts to guide them through the trials of life? Are our children at risk of psychic harm from strict teachers and competitive games like tag and dodge ball? AEI scholars and best-selling authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel present an exposé of the powerful modern ethos of "therapism"—the attitude that human beings are weak, dependent, and never altogether responsible for what they do. The authors assess these claims and offer a more realistic picture of the national psyche in their new book, One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, April 2005).

 
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1:45 p.m.
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2:00
Introduction:
Christopher DeMuth, AEI
2:15 Presentation:
Sally Satel, MD, AEI
 
 
Christina Hoff Sommers, AEI
 
 
 
3:15 Adjournment
 
 
 
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