This much acclaimed treatise, by  Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the over-protection of the generation born after 1995, has some valuable points to make about the emotional and intellectual fragility of today’s college students. As a group therapist, however, I disagree with the authors’ conclusion that CBT therapy can make it all right. First, the authors assume that emotions can be influenced by rational thinking.  Emotions are not of the intellect. The authors seem to suggest ‘change your brain’ therapy can modify destructive behavior. Recent research suggests, however, that these changes dissipate over time while the improved functioning associated with analytically-oriented therapy tend to last. As a group therapist for over 35 years, I have anecdotal evidence to support this latter observation. Two mantras of analytic treatment are: 1. Have all your feelings but choose which ones to act on. Feelings are energy; they are also informational,revealing a person’s emotional state at any given point in time. The criteria for determining which feelings to act on is-will the verbalization of these feelings lead to positive constructive dialogue?  Even negative feelings can provide this function if expressed directly, that is if expressed in the form, “I feel —fill in the blank; such as angry, hurt, resentful, suspicious, paranoid, afraid and so on. Name-calling, character assassination and raised voices are abusive. They do not constitute an honest expression of feelings. Similarly, sentences that begin with “I feel that…” are also not feeling statements. They are thoughts and judgments in the guise of feelings. 2. Just because you think something is true, doesn’t make it true. Check it out with the group. Groups can provide a more realistic perspective than any one individual’s view of the world.