I love the Loneliness Industry Podcast by Jordan Reyne and in her latest episode she critiques our field. I know I'm guilty of many of the things she points out.  
  
Episode Description:  
  
What if therapy isn't healing you — but training you to comply?  
This episode of the Loneliness Industry dismantles the hidden power structures operating inside modern therapy, showing how supposedly neutral mental health practices can mirror narcissism and even narcissistic abuse. Instead of validating your lived experience, therapy often reframes structural suffering as personal pathology — turning perfectly sane reactions into signs of disorder.  
  
Drawing on thinkers like Michel Foucault, Christopher Lasch, and René Girard, public philosopher Jordan Reyne exposes how psychological institutions use gaslighting tactics to invalidate reality, demand compliance, and ultimately produce self-doubt. You’ll learn how CBT operates as a behaviour correction tool within capitalism, how the DSM functions as a cultural scapegoat machine, and why your distress may be a rational response to a sick society — not evidence that you are broken.  
  
By the end, you’ll have a diagnostic toolkit for spotting when therapy becomes compliance training, and three questions that prove you're fundamentally OK — no institutional fixing required.  
  
If you’ve ever walked out of therapy feeling like YOU are the problem for noticing the problem, this episode shows why: it was never about healing — it was about conformity.

What If Therapy Is Training You To Obey, Not Heal?