LibraryScenariosWhen therapy pathologizes your awareness of discrimination
Scenario

When therapy pathologizes your awareness of discrimination

My therapist suggested that my anxiety about antisemitism might be generational trauma manifesting irrationally and now I question whether my fear of hatred is valid or inherited neurosis.

Juana
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are struggling to distinguish between helpful insight about inherited patterns and dismissal of present-day threats to your safety.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jewish tikkun olam — repairing the world?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.