NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway, who drew fire this week for calling Elon Musk a "traitor to the West," says for most of the young men he works with, a job, friends and a girlfriend would do more than therapy - and Stanford addiction psychiatrist Anna Lembke told him on his podcast that he is right. His book Notes on Being a Man argues that young men are in crisis.
Scott Galloway. (Photo by Tobias Hase/picture alliance via Getty Images)"Bullshit, get a job, get a friend, get a girlfriend, get out of the house, start exercising," Galloway said on a bonus episode of The Prof G Pod released Tuesday. "That is the equivalent of a nuclear detonation of therapy for 60 to 90% of the young men I deal with."
Galloway blamed what he called "ring light therapists" on TikTok, who he said have "created these cults of therapy where you just, you need to work on yourself first." He said therapy "is a wonderful thing," that he defers to Lembke because "I have no training in adolescent psychiatry," and that now and then he tells parents a kid needs a psychiatrist. But most of the time, he said, "if this kid can get a job, start working out, get some friends and maybe start asking women out, that's
