I have long maintained that the significant per-capita increase in child and adolescent mental health problems since the 1960s — a ten-fold increase in suicide, for example — is due to the collective embrace of a parenting paradigm that has proven itself to be not only dysfunctional but also dangerous — ironically, to child and teen mental health. This new paradigm, which I term “Postmodern Psychological Parenting,” was cut from whole cloth by America’s mental health establishment.