Ep. 63 — Iatrogenics: When Therapy Becomes the Problem, Not the Cure

What if the very thing meant to heal you is what's making you worse? In this episode of Second Thoughts, Dr. Roger Hall introduces one of the most important and least discussed concepts in psychology: iatrogenics, when the cure causes the disease. Dr. Hall walks through the recovered memory crisis of the 1980s and 90s, when therapists across the country convinced clients they had repressed traumatic memories that never actually happened. Some of those clients' testimony sent innocent people t...