Dale Partridge - December 06, 2025


Perfectly Explained

Topics
therapy replacing religion
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Dale Partridge
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Frank Farady
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2 minutes

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Word count

389

Sentence count

11

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2

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In this episode, I talk about the parallels between therapy culture and religion, and how therapy has replaced religion for modern women, and why this is a bad thing. I also talk about why therapy culture has become religion.

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00:00:00.000 i do think this is kind of a cliche thing to say now but i do think therapy culture has replaced
00:00:05.440 religion um and that's not a new thing to say people have been saying that for a long time so
00:00:11.600 christopher lash was writing about that in the 70s uh frank ferrudi writes about it really well now
00:00:18.000 but in recent years since social media i would say therapy culture has just escalated um to the
00:00:23.600 the point where I think young women don't see it as a worldview they just see that as kind of life
00:00:30.420 so they interpret everything through this therapeutic lens so their lives their relationships
00:00:36.780 their emotions um and I think it has elevated to the level of religion um so you think of you think
00:00:45.100 of all the kind of characteristics of religion we just mimic them with therapy culture so instead
00:00:50.620 of praying we just repeat our like positive affirmations um instead of like seeking salvation
00:00:57.080 you'll go on like a healing journey um instead of like you know resisting temptation from the devil
00:01:05.640 you'll reframe your intrusive thoughts um and so i think for young women in particular who are
00:01:11.400 becoming less religious this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void
00:01:17.340 she's a very smart young lady and she's correct therapy has become religion for many modern women
00:01:26.400 because it's built on emotionalism and more than that it's it's free of consequences because
00:01:32.040 nothing is considered objectively wrong or evil unless it makes you feel bad and so uh everyone
00:01:39.900 is religious right it's it's not whether you will worship it's which god you will worship
00:01:46.560 and whether that God is legitimate or illegitimate. And so therapy functions kind of like
00:01:52.380 pornography. It's an illegitimate outlet for a legitimate need. And so people should seek
00:02:01.240 spiritual guidance. They should seek accountability. They should seek out healing.
00:02:06.820 But Christianity is the only legitimate outlet for that legitimate spiritual need. Not therapy,
00:02:14.020 not new age mysticism, not Hinduism, not self-help spirituality. And so very good thought.
00:02:22.700 And her parallels that she does to religion were spot on. I would just add one more,
00:02:28.260 that instead of going to a pastor or a priest for confession and absolution, 1.00
00:02:35.720 these women are going to a therapist for validation and for pills. 0.98