On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:13:00 -0700, Dr. Bob Wildblood wrote:
Quoth Mike Palij:
Phil McGraw (does anyone with a Ph.D. really consider him
a "psychologist"?)
First, let me say that I am of two minds about someone pulling
this point out of my post: (a) I'm impressed that someone actually
read this far into a long post that had little obvious connection to
either psychology or teaching, and (b) I'm sad that in the context
of a post that reviews some of the most horrific actions of the 20th
century, a minor comment about a TV personality is singled out.
I thought that maybe Japan's use of the "Holy War" card might
spurn some discussion but....
Actually, there are a fair number of us that think that Dr. Phil is/was
a good clinical/applied psychologist but that the lure of maintaining
his position of the best paid psychologist in history has made him take
on a bit of a Jerry Springer approach to his show which was, for the
first three years at least, a very good show with some very practical
solutions to some very common problems faced by many real people.
Who can forget the work he did with his first family? Who, indeed?
I readily admit to not knowing all that much about Phillip Calvin
McGraw because what little I have seen of him on TV and what
little I've read by him has led me to me think that my time and
efforts would be better spent elsewhere, say, O'Donohue,
Henderson, Hayes, Fisher, & Hayes' 2001 book "A History of
the Behavioral Therapies: Founders' Personal Histories" (not a
perfect book, to be sure, and one should supplement it with
Arthur Staats' criticism of the "missing" chapter on his "psychological
behaviorism").
So, I've gone to TiPS' favorite easily available information source,
"The Wikipedia" (standard disclaimers apply), and reviewed his
entry there in order to better understand the point(s) you are making.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McGraw
I've concluded that you're being sarcastic, right?
-Mike Palij
New York University
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P.S. For someone who appears to be very productive, I'm surprised
that there are only two entries in PsycInfo for him: one is his dissertation
and one is an article that appears to be based/related to his dissertation.
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