Like all things humane and full of soul, in a mechanistic society people prefer pills and behavioral techniques — and maybe a little electricity — to talk. It’s popular in some circles today to pooh-pooh therapy as mere yakking, branding it laughably simplistic compared to pharmacology and hardware. Yes, talk is simple and yet sometimes more difficult than making a pill.

Thomas Moore makes a great point that we are not as rational as we might believe or act and can all use Therapy.