The Therapist Will Raise You Now

By: Megan Erickson

Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.

Illustration by Benny Douet.

hatever I was supposed to navigate or mess up or express as a twentysomething, I never got around to it. At twenty-three, I was diagnosed with a malignant teratoma, a quick-growing tumor composed of cells that can take the shape of teeth, hair, bone, intestinal lining, even a half-formed eye. “Teratoma” comes from the ancient […]

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hatever I was supposed to navigate or mess up or express as a twentysomething, I never got around to it. At twenty-three, I was diagnosed with a malignant teratoma, a quick-growing tumor composed of cells that can take the shape of teeth, hair, bone, intestinal lining, even a half-formed eye. “Teratoma” comes from the ancient […]

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hatever I was supposed to navigate or mess up or express as a twentysomething, I never got around to it. At twenty-three, I was diagnosed with a malignant teratoma, a quick-growing tumor composed of cells that can take the shape of teeth, hair, bone, intestinal lining, even a half-formed eye. “Teratoma” comes from the ancient […]

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hatever I was supposed to navigate or mess up or express as a twentysomething, I never got around to it. At twenty-three, I was diagnosed with a malignant teratoma, a quick-growing tumor composed of cells that can take the shape of teeth, hair, bone, intestinal lining, even a half-formed eye. “Teratoma” comes from the ancient […]