Triggered? Dr Jonathan Shedler on the overuse of therapy speak

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Phrases such as 'triggered' and 'toxic' are actually taking us away from understanding our own psychology and that of other people, says psychoanalyst Dr Jonathan Shedler. "This is a language of social media and pop psychology and self-help, this isn't actually the language of psychotherapy," he tells Kim Hill.