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The New York Times's long-standing love affair with idealized therapy succeeds at selling me a subscription and fails at advocating for kids.

I’ve got to give it to the New York Times: they know their audience. It is full of highly educated¹ lefty² white³ people with more than average income⁴ who like to protest things⁵ that they have strong opinions about. We also have a pathological need to be able to answer the question: “Did you read that thing in the Times?”

So, I have a confession. I’m Owen Scott Muir, Medical Doctor. I’m the target audience. There is no way I am not going to read “that thing in the Times”. So, dutifully, I read their recent article from the Inner Pandemic series about how we have an amazing therapy for suicidal kids but few can access it. And I subscribed because I wanted to make sure I could get through a conversation this week without being an utter pariah amongst my mental health colleagues.

One of the strong opinions, as highlighted this week in this as well as another very misleading piece about polypharmacy by the same author, is a deep suspicion of mental health care that doesn’t fit our preco…