Rain Adkins

I'm a psychotherapist. On the positive side, Phil says some useful and perceptive things in a wonderfully folksy way,, and he provides a lot of help to people who couldn't otherwise afford it it He does some genuine good from time to time.. But I certainly wouldn't pick him to treat me or my clients. First and foremost, he's a bully, trading on his authority in ways that are not only professionally unacceptable in this day and age but often completely counterproductive. He seems to think he's back in the age of the Omnipotent Psychoanalyst--and even those guys were often kinder about it. Celebrity and authorship have gone to his head in a very big way, I fear; he got out of private therapy practice because he hated it, so there has to be some other motivator. . Second, his own history of body dysphoria has made him one of the worst fatbashers in the public realm. Worse yet, he purports to "treat" people of size _while knowing nothing about current weight physiology._ Gonna make everybody call you "Doctor", doctor? Then crack a friggin' book once in awhile.. . Worst of all, he then purports to treat anorexics and bulemics--eating disorders that are epidemic partly because of cultural body prejudice and misinformation _he helps reinforce_. It's not nice and it's not right. .