Bad Therapist
5.0/5
Critic Rating
At a moment when therapy speak has made it into the mainstream and trauma is a national preoccupation, it’s high time to examine the shadow side of mental health. Bad Therapist Podcast takes an amused, informed look at the bad actors mucking around in the world of psychology. Cads, opportunists, and charlatans have been a part of this field since the beginning; some of them have even made lasting contributions to the field. Co-hosted by psychotherapist Ash Compton and journalist Rachel Monroe, both big fans of therapy and big critics of those who abuse its insights, Bad Therapist delves in...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Mar 31, 2025
"Some of the best cultural criticism happens in the classic conversational podcast format pegged to a specific line of deconstructive inquiry, so much so that it’s practically a veritable genre and a movement...Add another to the mix: Bad Therapist...Operating as a kind of response to contemporary rise of therapy and therapy-speak as a cultural aesthetic as opposed to a scientifically driven discipline...."
