Paul C Cherry

Absolute Honesty

Revisado: 03-07-25

As a therapist, I highly recommend this book for anyone who has lost a child and for those who love and care for anyone who has ever lost a child.

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Men! Please read this book.

Revisado: 09-28-24

As a male therapist, one of my female clients recommended this book, and all I can say is, wow! I've been learning more and more through the stories of my clients how we need to listen to women. This book is a guide on HOW to listen to women. I cannot recommend this book enough, especially for men, and especially for any man in the business of women's healthcare. We need to do better and to hold each other accountable. But most of all, we need to learn how to listen to women and believe what they say. Yes her story is very graphic and hard to hear, but we need to hear it and go deep into the shadows to begin caring for the roots rather than just the dying branches of the tree. We need heroines. Thank you for telling your story!

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A must read

Revisado: 08-27-24

Well researched and enlightening point of view from the perspective and experiences of mothers. I highly recommend all mothers and fathers read this book to increase empathy and understanding of themselves, their partners, and their relationship.

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Confirmation Bias

Revisado: 08-11-24

I started out with high hopes for this book as I tended to agree with some of the author's initial opinions. I do believe kids need to be able to face adversity and learn to overcome it themselves without constant adult meddling and supervision, and I do believe kids need to learn responsibilities and given a chance to make mistakes and learn to recover from them.

However, the title of this book would be better named, Bad Journalism: How to prove your opinion true using slick confirmation bias disguised as research.

It is very clear that the author's general belief is that the younger generation is terrible and only getting worse and she points the finger directly at all therapists (no matter what kind- which she doesn't even differentiate) and liberal parenting. She clearly believes all therapists want to do is pathologicalize all children's behavior, throw medication down their throats, and make as many of them transgender as they can.

She goes about proving her opinion true with carefully selected and cherry picked "evidence" by selecting interview subjects and individual psychologists who would agree with her. Once in a while, the reader gets lucky, and she cites an actual peer reviewed research paper, but she then applies her biased opinion to the conclusion.

As a former teacher and practicing therapist, all of my training, experience, and practice goes directly against most of her conclusions. I've seen the same poor parenting, poor therapeutic, and poor educational practices from both conservative and liberal parents. None of my colleagues practice therapy or education in the way she describes, much less all the in-school therapy by teacher she describes. I have clients from all generations and backgrounds who have very similar concerns and who are in need of similar support.

I spend more time undoing social media, Google, and parent-assigned mental health diagnoses than I do shoving pathology down everyone's throats, as do most of my colleagues. This book reads very much like someone who lives in a pessimistic feedback loop in a tight bubble of similar voices, perhaps fueled by social media and 24-hour biased news cycles than it does anything useful.

If this is your feedback loop and bubble, you'll love this book. If you want real research and a better understanding of the difference between good and bad therapy, then look elsewhere.

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