I got a few angry e-mails about this post. I meant in no way to knock the fact that there are people who need actual post-traumatic mental health. But Americans tend to have a knee-jerk get-the-professionals response to grief and I think Sally Satel has some smart things to say on the topic–how that reflex could be more harmful that not.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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