Reply #23: MAJOR kudos for noting he isn't a real doctor. [View All]

[BlueIris]

I hate that even people who dislike him mislabel him a "shrink." Shrinks, as I've always heard the term defined, WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. They must meet a certain standard of care within their practice of MEDICINE, and can (at least theoretically) be held accountable for fucking up people's lives, neglecting their patients, etc. "Dr." Phil even calls his CLIENTS his "patients," because he's just that stupid and presumptuous.

I hate him. He's a misogynist, and asshole and a moron. He's basically scamming folks in the worst kind of way: telling them they can magically and quickly fix serious emotional and psychological problems, many of which have societal and environmental tie-ins, simply by changing behaviors. Which is...a total lie and a dangerous one. It's a claim he makes while having NO understanding of physiology, history, this society or much of anything else as far as I can tell, especially relationships. It's the "band-aid-on-a-gushing-wound" approach to "psychotherapy." Even DR. RUTH could out counsel him, he sucks so much.