I had heard about a few of those things through the Behind the Bastards episode, but your breakdown is spectacular. I’d been looking for the evidence of his shit with the 19 year old for a while - it seems like it’s been really suppressed. Thanks for the disciplinary file, that’s going in a few places.
I loathe the man. I think he normalized a lot of the fucked up shit I experienced in “therapy” as a teenager - the idea that it’s supposed to make you “normal,” that you just need to be berated into toughening up. That type of outdoor program (I did end up in a hellish “partial inpatient” program) was always a threat growing up and I internalized a lot of the “you are a bad kid” when I was a straight edge kid with good grades, just fucking neurodiverse!
When I was a younger more insecure clinician, about a decade ago probably, his impact was still far reaching. I had many pediatric clients that had parents that would consider those wholly unregulated abuse farms he regularly advertised on his show. The ones where they’d like fake kidnap you and then basically have a random guy with no credentials or training play army boot camp (and maybe molest you). That’s another whole different post though. And they wanted military school, and the idea of reinforcement based parenting over punishment was just a concept that simply wouldn’t connect (and still doesn’t for many)
I despise the man, he is representative of a disgusting part of our culture that glorifies celebrating toxic masculinity and emotional suppression. A charlatan. The fact that he is worth half a billion dollars and myself and many of my colleagues are still struggling to pay my student loans and have no health insurance is absolutely disgusting.
I had heard about a few of those things through the Behind the Bastards episode, but your breakdown is spectacular. I’d been looking for the evidence of his shit with the 19 year old for a while - it seems like it’s been really suppressed. Thanks for the disciplinary file, that’s going in a few places.
I loathe the man. I think he normalized a lot of the fucked up shit I experienced in “therapy” as a teenager - the idea that it’s supposed to make you “normal,” that you just need to be berated into toughening up. That type of outdoor program (I did end up in a hellish “partial inpatient” program) was always a threat growing up and I internalized a lot of the “you are a bad kid” when I was a straight edge kid with good grades, just fucking neurodiverse!
When I was a younger more insecure clinician, about a decade ago probably, his impact was still far reaching. I had many pediatric clients that had parents that would consider those wholly unregulated abuse farms he regularly advertised on his show. The ones where they’d like fake kidnap you and then basically have a random guy with no credentials or training play army boot camp (and maybe molest you). That’s another whole different post though. And they wanted military school, and the idea of reinforcement based parenting over punishment was just a concept that simply wouldn’t connect (and still doesn’t for many)
I despise the man, he is representative of a disgusting part of our culture that glorifies celebrating toxic masculinity and emotional suppression. A charlatan. The fact that he is worth half a billion dollars and myself and many of my colleagues are still struggling to pay my student loans and have no health insurance is absolutely disgusting.