Christina Hoff Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys and is the editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country.
Dr. Sally Satel is a practicing psychiatrist and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine.
Both authors are resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
"Sommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique." --George Will, The Washington Post "Sommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique." --Diane Ravitch, author of The Language Police "There are countless reasons to celebrate the new book One Nation Under Therapy. " --Andrew Ferguson, Bloomberg.com
"Will Americans actively defend the traditional creed of stoicism and the ideology of achievement, or will they continue to allow the nation to slide into therapeutic self-absorption and moral debility?" So concludes this critique of our "inward gazing, feeling-centered" culture. Sommers (Who Stole Feminism?) joins psychiatrist Satel to rail against humanistic psychology, scorn graduates of schools of education and grief counselors, and beat dead horses like the insanity defense, citing the 1973 case of Dan White but not Andrea Yates in 2002. Resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, they attack writers like Daniel Goleman and Denise Clark Hope and an alleged emphasis on self-esteem over competition in our schools: "Seeing ourselves as good guys against the bad" is a "simple and necessary perspective." The book gives the false impression that most therapists favor unrestrained emotional venting and do not hold people responsible for their actions. Among other absurdities that Sommers and Satel argue is that top Catholic clergy were blindsided about the sex abuse scandal owing to the "church's descent into therapism." Despite 80 pages of notes, this book can only be recommended as an example of how not to present social science research.-E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
"Sommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique." --George Will, The Washington Post "Sommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique." --Diane Ravitch, author of The Language Police "There are countless reasons to celebrate the new book One Nation Under Therapy. " --Andrew Ferguson, Bloomberg.com
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