Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.1.51.10-20150526062531/@comment-25035274-20150907203749

74.192.135.129 wrote: You've brought up some excelent questions, but television personalities aren't reliable sources of psychological/sociological information;I've brought this up because Phil is a charlatan whom likes to pretend that he has some sort of doctorate and put his victims up for all the world to scorn. No matter what television says about the matter, publicly telling people that they suck is not proper treatment of mental illness and/or marital issues.

Say what you will about the public exhibition of people with assorted mental difficulties, the man is legitimately a doctor. That doesn't speak to whether what he does on his show is right or wrong, but the man does have a doctorate in clinical psychology. As such, he is not pretending, and he is not a charlatan.

Again, not saying one way or the other whether I agree with the practice of public shaming. It's not really my place to judge.