Girlhood, Translated

Understanding Girls in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis

A leading child psychiatrist reveals how therapy speak and the culture of self-diagnosis is reshaping a generation and what to do about it.

The mostenergising book Ive read this year. As a parent I was transfixed by recognition. As a therapist it opened my eyes Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven

ADHD.
OCD.
Toxic.
Unwell.

A new language has entered our culture. Over the past decade, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell noticed more and more girls describing themselves through the lens of therapy speak and psychiatric diagnoses, often pulled from social media. At the same time, she saw parents responding to this jargon with either alarm or dismissiveness, widening the communication gap between the generations.

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