‘We live in an age where therapy culture dominates our culture’.
Brent talks with Matthew Loftus about his new IVP book ‘Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond’.
Matthew teaches and practices family medicine at a mission hospital in Kenya. His work has appeared in ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Atlantic’, ‘Christianity Today’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’ among others. He is the 2025 recipient of Trinity Forum’s Michael J. Gerson Prize for Excellence in Writing on Faith and Public Life.
(1:00) Therapy culture;
(4:00) The West;
(5:40) Mental health;
(7:15) The church and therapy culture;
(10:00) Medicalization;
(11:20) Suffering;
(12:20) Shame;
(16:10) The church and mental illness;
(18:00) The demonic?
(19:30) Trauma;
(21:50) Pastoral advice;
(23:30) A ‘good enough’ church.
Links mentioned in this episode:
matthewandmaggie.org/2026/07/06/why-did-i-write-resisting-therapy-culture/
www.amazon.com/Resisting-Therapy-Culture-Dangers-Psychology/dp/1514012685
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