... all we saw the obsession manifested in, it would be significant, but still partial. Actually, it has reached far beyond the bookshelf and the media. American's world view has been deeply shaped by its obsession with therapy. It is not just our personal lives, but every part of our culture. In our society, "from sports to geopolitics, America has reduce virtually everything to psychological terms."3 This even shows up in our national security news. A Wall Street Journal article, "praised the Gulf War for helping us recover from our Vietnam War inferiority complex."4 America is so obsessed with therapy that we psychologize even our nation in relation to war. Problems that were at one time considered political, economic, or educational, are now are said to be psychological. Albert Gilgen, in his book, American psychology since WWII, gave the following example in relation to the educational field: English teacher evaluation: Grammatical or ...

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