When Therapy Culture Eats Your Agency w/ Matthew Loftus

About this episode

(Episode 83) DESCRIPTION Matthew Loftus is a family physician who teaches and practices at a Presbyterian mission hospital in Kenya. He has been treated for depression himself. He is not against therapy. His argument is that therapy is a discipline with boundaries, and that what has escaped those boundaries is something else. In this conversation we work the distinction. Therapy finds a barrier and helps you get past it. Therapy culture invites you to settle in, and eventually to move in, until the diagnosis stops describing you and starts being you. Loftus names the cost in one word: agency. We ask how much of this the church built for itself, and whether decades of pragmatic,…