Dear Prudence/Polly/Thelma/Abby - The Culture of Advice Columns

Advice columns provide a space for everyone: the lovelorn, the adulterous, the confused, the hurt. What motivates people to write in hoping to receive advice from a wise (but anonymous) sage? And how have advice columns managed to carve out a space for themselves in the time of the Internet where everyone has an opinion and a half, and trolls abound? Vizla Kumaresan joins Lee Chwi Lynn in trying to make sense of it all, and explains how the work of a therapist and that of an advice columnist differs.