I'd quote the whole article here, but I truly admire this portion:
The modern overuse of prescription mood-altering drugs is a symptom of the liberal softness infecting our culture. We try to buffer every little pain, prevent every little trauma, alter the feel of the outcome of every natural zero-sum game. We have raised two full generations up under the dominant credo that one can do everything wrong and not only can but SHOULD still win, that all pain is flat-out bad and equally intolerable and to be doped-out or avoided or -God help me, the very notion makes me wish to vomit- paraded before one's peers for collective empathising and some mythic catharsis, that sensitivity to even the slightest or remotest thing is always good, that scars and callouses are always bad, that being tough is no virtue.
My dad - from one of those "tougher" generations has met himself a New Age Aussie wife (they married so she wouldn't have to leave the US, and so he could sleep with someone every night), took on Gestalt at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. The nonsense coming out of his mouth after that made me cringe. Lots of "getting in touch" "sharing emotions and how they make you FEEL", etc. I let him know in no uncertain terms it was a load of garbage and he knew better. A year and a half later, and after being whacked twice by his Pacifist wife, he says he sees my point.