Has anyone written how the modern focus on emotional health has been perverted into a valorization of defense mechanisms, distrust, and avoidant attachment style?

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) August 28, 2021

I write about that topic on this blog from time to time. But as for books, there is Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman.

There might be others, but that’s the only one I am aware of. I wish someone would write something long-form in this vein that also encompassed the pandemic and prudishness, though.