The Case Against Therapy: Why Psychology Failed Us and How to Recover Our Sanity

This provocative book dares to ask big questions about whether therapy is the answer to our mental health crisis...or if it’s merely escalating that crisis by failing to grasp what’s actually essential to a well-lived life.

It’s a paradox. We’ve never had so much help. We’ve never been in more anguish. It makes you start to wonder: what if the cure for our mental health crisis isn’t more mental health care?

That’s something James Mumford found himself pondering during a stay in a psychiatri...