David Heinemeier Hansson

Discussion around the consequences of integrating therapy sessions into workplace culture, highlighting the negative impacts of over-emphasizing emotional processing in professional settings. Advocates for differentiating between professional and therapeutic environments to prevent fragility and improve resilience at work.

Too much therapy at work

50 / 50 with this post. I agree that some of the points, mostly being that meetings can become group therapy and that can lead to some counter productive stuff, but it always, at least in my opinion, depends on the group of people
I’ve had a job where we talked about everything during our scrum retro meetings and that really helped put stuff in perspective and it forced us to talk about stuff that was actually blocking us (alltough, some stuff was project related, but some stuff was also relationships between people).
What I don’t like about this post and actually about the book that you’ve mentioned is that we can’t “walk it off” or just “do it” or stuff like that. I know these types of people and they become always action driven and think that they can “out-do” their emotional problems and what happens is that you have neurotic people that cannot handle their emotions and when they feel that cannot resolve the problem by doing something, they start to lash out.
In my opinion, the solution lies in moderation and balance:
sometimes you need to talk about it, sometimes you just need to do it
Overall, interesting post, thanks for sharing this and for keeping me from buying “Bad therapy” book, because reading a review for it (link here: <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sax-on-sex/202404/is-bad-therapy-bad-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sax-on-sex/202404/is-bad-therapy-bad-therapy</a>) it seems like a terrible book hahah

DHH post sounds really dismissive. It seems like he didn’t like the feedback he received from his employees and he’s just shrugging it off and telling them to “get a therapist” instead of voicing their concerns. Not a good attitude to have by any manager.

One of our SCRUM master pulled that onto us, later turned out to be an Narcissist that used it against you and caused toxic interaction between people in his team just for fun.
And since in modern work everything is recorded this is private matters that should never be done in a company. Can be used against you to get you fired.

“Everything you say can and will be used against you” applies nicely here.
If it’s not related to this current technical/work-related situation it’s properly not a good thing to talk about, don’t talk about on people’s appearance, body size, gender, etc. And it’s best to avoid politics online (by your real name) as everything, once online, always online. If you want to talk about do it in person, as it’s easy to loose ones humanity of these discussions.
Or to put simply “You are the work, not to twerk” (She Hulk reference). If you have mental problems talk to a licensed therapist or some friends outside of work, you are responsible for doing a good job and being usable, your boss is not a friend nor an enemy, but business is still business.
If they send you to a ~brainwashing session~ cough sensitivity training to learn about micro aggressions, privilege, and unconscious biasses?! Run! fly! Anything, but get out!!