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.