Hannah Spier: How Feminism Changed Therapy
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: psychiatrist Hannah Spier of Psychobabble
0:56 – Why Hannah calls herself an anti-feminist psychiatrist
2:11 – Do troubled people go into psychotherapy?
4:09 – How feminist assumptions shape therapy
8:34 – Lou's experience in therapy
12:02 – Red flags: how long should therapy last?
13:25 – Why men open up while walking, driving, or building
16:17 – Exercise and diet as mental health treatment
18:33 – Body positivity and celebrating mental illness
20:42 – What are Cluster B personality disorders?
22:58 – Victimhood, self-diagnosis, and TikTok
25:50 – Excusing a toxic partner and prison pen pals
27:53 – Dating apps, height, and lonely young men
30:41 – Divorce, consent, and the "manosphere"
33:00 – Accountability for women and what makes a good mother
34:48 – Why women should plan for family early
37:32 – Bad relationship advice, adultery, and Mad Men
40:36 – Telling young women the truth about their 30s
42:26 – Theodore Dalrymple, the godfather of psychobabble
45:43 – "Neurodivergence is a costume worn by narcissists"
46:43 – How the autism diagnosis expanded
50:01 – Neurotypical kids and special education funding
53:41 – The inflated trauma diagnosis and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Anti-feminist psychiatrist Hannah Spier of Psychobabble joins Lou to talk about feminism's impact on therapy, Cluster B personality disorders, and why "neurodivergence is a costume worn by narcissists."
We also get into red flags for how long therapy should last, why men open up while walking, driving, or building, exercise and diet as mental health treatment, self-diagnosis on TikTok, prison pen pals, dating apps and lonely young men, why women should plan for family early, a shoutout to Theodore Dalrymple, how the autism diagnosis expanded, and calling out the Cluster B(itches).