Therapeutic culture caters to an unnecessarily collapsed modern psyche

First I explain my paradigm of the structure of the psyche as it pertains to tradition and modernity and then I flesh out in more detail how a proactive (rather than belatedly reactive and therapeutic) society works.

Therapy caters to and serves those whose character structures have become compressed in the style that is common to modernity.  A formalistic, hierarchical society will not produce this result.  Moreover, if authorities take on the abstract, formal responsibility of pruning pathologies before they grow too large, these will not wreak havoc in society.  We have lost the capacity for abstract, formal self-criticism.  Instead we have helicopter parenting and those who grow up feeling they are just what they are.   They are highly sensitive to differences of opinion, which they take as criticism.   They have not learned self-transcendence, so they have not acquired scope for intellectual development.