Why therapy is making America more polarized

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In the weeks after the 2024 election, a man came to see me frustrated not by his marriage, but by his marriage counselor. Before discussing communication, intimacy, or years of resentment, the counselor insisted he first renounce his political views. Only then, he was told, could the real work begin.