--- title: Maytal Eyal | TIME description: Eyal is a writer and psychologist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and Psychology Today. She is currently writing a book on how therapy culture lost its way canonical: https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Maytal Eyal ## Maytal Eyal Eyal is a writer and psychologist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and Psychology Today. She is currently writing a book on how therapy culture lost its way ## Maytal Eyal *  Feb 25, 2025 ### [I’m a Therapist, and I’m Replaceable. But So Are You.](https://time.com/7261110/ai-therapy-human-connection-essay/) Maytal Eyal explores what AI therapy gets wrong. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 17, 2024 ### [The Sorry State of Postpartum Care in America](https://time.com/6967372/postpartum-care-america-essay/) We have normalized postpartum pain in the U.S. instead of treating it, write Maytal Eyal and Bridget... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 3, 2023 ### [Self-Silencing Is Making Women Sick](https://time.com/6319549/silencing-women-sick-essay/) For women, being more disappointing could be a lifesaver, writes Maytal Eyal. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 15, 2023 ### [Self-Love Is Making Us Lonely](https://time.com/6271915/self-love-loneliness/) Self-love's entanglement with self-absorption and materialism has caused serious mental-health conse... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/","name":"Maytal Eyal"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/"},"name":"Maytal Eyal","jobTitle":null,"description":"Eyal is a writer and psychologist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and Psychology Today. She is currently writing a book on how therapy culture lost its way","url":"https://time.com/author/maytal-eyal/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```