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WE ARE AWASH IN THERAPIES. ONE-QUARTER OF AMERICANS—around 80 million—have sought some kind of psychological counseling in their lifetimes. Ritalin is prescribed to more than 11 million children in America, with prescriptions growing fastest among two- to-four-year-olds. Eleven percent of American women and five percent of American men are on antidepressants.
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Beer, J. (2013). The Therapeutic State and the Forgotten Work of Culture. In: Federici, M.P., Gamble, R.M., Mitchell, M.T. (eds) The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137093417_10
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