Psychologist Esra Özbay from Turkey blamed family therapists for the sharp increase in divorce rates in a video shared on her social media account. According to her, specialists prioritizing individual happiness harms the family structure.
Esra Özbay claims that since family therapists began to instill in their patients that the most important things in marriage are "love" and "feeling valuable," there has been an explosion in divorces.
According to Özbay, tolerance decreases between parties who constantly think about their own worth and individual happiness, which leads to small problems resulting in separation.
The psychologist notes that placing individual happiness above family unity in therapies weakens family bonds in the modern era. She defends that the "me"-centered approach destroys the concept of "us."
Özbay's statement has created two different camps in society and among specialists:
Some users believe that modern psychology makes people excessively individualistic and presents family sacrifice as an outdated concept.
Other specialists argue that the real causes of divorces are economic difficulties, violence, infidelity, and changing social norms. According to them, the duty of a psychologist is to protect individual health because it is impossible to build a healthy family from unhappy individuals./Milli.az/