The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 has been felt by many as a political trauma. In response, this trauma has been worked through using therapeutic talk and practice. In this article, we examine the media representations of these responses across a wide range of news sources in order to understand the way that attitudes and values regarding the politicisation of therapy are captured, reinforced and shaped. It is shown that therapy provides a legitimate ground for self-management of feelings of political hurt; that this is seen as valuable for the formation of political communities of action and resistance; and that it then comes under attack from the right precisely because of this community-forming function. Criticism of therapeutic engagement emerges as a rhetorical means of disrupting solidarity and silencing political dissent. It is concluded that these representations need to be situated within the contradictory character of a therapeutic culture that heals and empowers individuals as it situates subjects within medicalised and neoliberalised structures of power.

唐纳德·特朗普是美国总统在2016年选举已经感受到了很多的政治创伤。作为响应，通过使用治疗性谈话和实践来解决了这种创伤。在本文中，我们研究了各种新闻来源中这些反应的媒体表现形式，以了解如何捕捉，加强和塑造关于治疗政治化的态度和价值观。事实证明，治疗为自我管理政治伤害的感觉提供了合法的基础。认为这对于形成行动和抵抗的政治共同体是有价值的；而且正是由于这种社区形成功能，它因此受到了右派的攻击。对治疗参与的批评是破坏团结和沉默政治异议的一种修辞手段。