Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond

Let Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be Therapists

We live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied,and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic lens, it becomes harmful rather than helpful.

The church is not immune to this phenomenon. Increasingly, people's expect...