Dr. Phil Dr. Phil has been polluting my living room TV for a while now. His quick-fix, no nonsense attitude was even recognized in Germany, where one of my roommates compared Dr. Phil's method of fixing things to the more patient, "German" way. He wasn't talking about helping people, though. He was talking about how to cook.

I've always been bothered that Dr. Phil oversimplifies things to an extreme. I wonder sometimes if he even hears what his guests (I can't bring myself to call them "patients") are saying. I think he just has a stack of 8-minute responses to whatever diagnosis they make based on the interview video (audition tape, heh).

That long rant was to introduce this overview of exactly what Dr. Phil does. The article is from Psychotherepy Networker Magazine, and explains a lot about what he does and why his viewers love it.  ¶   1 comments