Here’s a longer quote where he talks about William telling him to seek help and also a quote about how the therapy changed his life.
It would be quite unethical for the therapist that Harry saw for 2 1/2 years to contact him, but I surely wish that Harry would get back in contact with that therapist! According to this interview and direct quotes, it helped him a great deal. I don’t know who he is seeing now (if anyone) but I cannot see any mental health professional encouraging him to “tell all.”
Also anyone in therapy for that long would know how to get help in an emergency- thus all the “can’t get help for Meghan” was bogus and just served their victim narrative. I would be rolling my eyes/shaking my head if I had been his therapist.
The “genetic pain” he refers to in the podcast is (I think) a reference to epigenetics, a relatively new field. In very simplistic terms, trauma experienced by parents can change gene expression in their children. Trauma is a term casually thrown around by everyone these days, but the generational or intergenerational trauma in the literature means things such as sexual abuse, extreme poverty, domestic violence (which Harry may have witnessed) and genocide, for example.
If his therapist was well versed in family systems (which I’m sure was true), Harry would have learned about patterns such as the way one is parented is our model for how to parent.
So in my mind he has garbled some things together which just adds confusion instead of clarity to others who may have mental health concerns. This really bothers me as he is being touted as someone who knows something about mental health. If he could quote a book or information by a real expert, this would be helpful to others.
I think he is going for sensationalism to stay in the public eye and as some others have already said, to publicize his upcoming project with Oprah.
In addition to his throwing his family under the bus, which is awful, he is now also talking about things in mental health which he clearly doesn’t understand.