What can psychotherapists learn from the new youth protests? While those of the older generation who are locked into occupational roles feel powerless and therefore do not wish to think about the risk of war or the danger to the environment, those young people who are oriented toward "alternatives" express the real social problems which their elders have repressed. Psychotherapists and others of the older generation can learn from the new protest movement that if the majority acted as the alarmed young do, the fate that has been prepared for us might no longer be what it is.