The footage is being incorporated into a special report on “Dr. Phil Primetime,” a program on McGraw’s conservative TV channel Merit TV, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
I took a psychology intro class like 20 years ago and that professor hated Dr. Phil with an absolute passion because of how objectively bad he was as a representative for their field.
I honestly believe that part of the crisis in mental health care that’s universal across southern states is that therapists seem to think that therapy is supposed to look like his show.
I went through the hell of a troubled teen program - like the kid diddling Turnabout Ranch he sent kids to - and so much of my experiences with psychological care have been an attempt to force me into being something more “socially acceptable.” Not recognizing that my brain works differently than others, not helping me find coping strategies, but just telling me “you need more grit and to force yourself to make eye contact!”
His show presents bullying as “mental health care” - and this has seriously hampered the practice.
I’m not saying no to any of these, but why ESPECIALLY Oprah? I try not to know too much about any of them, but Phil seems especially bad considering how he lost his license, I don’t think Oprah did anything like that. Did she?
Oprah is who made Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz public figures. She made them famous on her show.
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[Dr. Phil] McGraw rose to fame with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the late 1990s. Oprah Winfrey then helped McGraw launch his own advice show, Dr. Phil, in September 2002.
In 2003, Oprah Winfrey was the first guest on the Discovery Channel series Second Opinion with Dr. Oz, and he was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, making more than sixty appearances. In 2009, The Dr. Oz Show, a daily television program about medical matters and health, was launched by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television, running for 13 seasons.
I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody in Hollywood is out for money and fame, and that some are just very smart about keeping their opinions to themselves so as not to shatter the illusion of being good people.
POS, listen to Behind the Bastards about him if you want to know why.
A fun piece of trivia is that he lost is license to practice as a counselor after having a relationship with one of his teenaged clients.
For starters.
Yikes.
I took a psychology intro class like 20 years ago and that professor hated Dr. Phil with an absolute passion because of how objectively bad he was as a representative for their field.
I honestly believe that part of the crisis in mental health care that’s universal across southern states is that therapists seem to think that therapy is supposed to look like his show.
I went through the hell of a troubled teen program - like the kid diddling Turnabout Ranch he sent kids to - and so much of my experiences with psychological care have been an attempt to force me into being something more “socially acceptable.” Not recognizing that my brain works differently than others, not helping me find coping strategies, but just telling me “you need more grit and to force yourself to make eye contact!”
His show presents bullying as “mental health care” - and this has seriously hampered the practice.
Fuck Dr Phil, Oz, and especially Oprah.
I’m not saying no to any of these, but why ESPECIALLY Oprah? I try not to know too much about any of them, but Phil seems especially bad considering how he lost his license, I don’t think Oprah did anything like that. Did she?
Oprah is who made Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz public figures. She made them famous on her show.
Edit:
Oprah also gave Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vaccine bullshit.
And Oprah loves her some Weinstein
I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody in Hollywood is out for money and fame, and that some are just very smart about keeping their opinions to themselves so as not to shatter the illusion of being good people.
There’s the odd actor who’s outspokenly not a shitbag; Pedro Pascal comes to mind as a recent example
Dr Phil is the kind of guy who in the 19th century I would have expected to roll into town with a wagon selling a miracle cure.
I would also expect them to roll out of town on a rail car, tied up to a post, and covered in tar and feathers.
I wouldn’t say that. I can picture him doing that in basically any century since the invention of the wagon