The Radical Therapist Podcast #149 - Personal Responsibility, Inc. with Julie Tilsen, PhD

What if therapy has become too good at helping people adapt to conditions that should never have been accepted in the first place? In this episode of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with narrative therapist, author, and educator Julie Tilsen, PhD to discuss her provocative new book, Personal Responsibility, Inc.: How Psychotherapy Turns Society's Problems into Yours. Together we examine one of the most pressing questions facing the mental health professions today: When does therapy relieve suffering, and when does it unintentionally reinforce the very systems that produce it? Their conversation explores psychotherapy's relationship with neoliberalism, why so many social and economic problems become framed as individual pathology, and how the language of self-care, resilience, and personal responsibility can sometimes obscure questions of power, inequality, and collective life. Julie also shares how narrative therapy has informed her thinking, where she believes the field still has blind spots, and what a practice grounded in collective responsibility might actually look like.   Julie's Book: https://orbooks.com/catalog/personal-responsibility-inc/   Books Discussed: https://orbooks.com/catalog/desperately-seeking-self-improvement/   https://cup.columbia.edu/book/in-the-ruins-of-neoliberalism/9780231193856/   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600158/mcmindfulness-by-ronald-purser/