The Assault on Faith, Family, & Science | Dr. Phil | EP 430

Hello everyone. I'm pleased to announce my new tour for 2024, beginning in early February and running through June. Tammy and I, along with an assortment of special guests, are going to visit 51 cities in the US. You can find out more information about this on my website, jordanbpeterson.com, as well as accessing all relevant ticketing information.

I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, out November 2024, "We Who Wrestle with God." I'm looking forward to this; I'm thrilled to be able to do it again, and I'll be pleased to see all of you again soon. Bye-bye.

And so I learned early on, sometimes you have to give yourself what you wish you could get from somebody else. Unless and until you can do that, you're cheating everybody around you that loves you, cares about you, or interfaces with you out of all of Who You Are.

Hello everyone. I have the opportunity today to talk to Dr. Phil McGraw, who's probably, perhaps, the world's most well-known practicing clinical psychologist, certainly on the media side of things. He's been doing that with extreme success for decades, and that's quite something to pull off.

He's come leaping forward once again, not only with a new network that's going to launch on cable and elsewhere on April 2nd but also with a new book called "We've Got Issues," which is definitely the case, both psychologically and socially in the West. That's what we're going to walk through.

He offers a diagnosis; he sees that three fundamental pillars of Western society and psychological stability are under assault—ideological assault, practical assault, simultaneously. Pillars of faith, family, and free speech. So that's a bit of a diagnostic enterprise, and then he offers ten working principles to deal with those assaults. Some of those are valid psychologically, and some of them valid socially; they all circulate around a central ethos, you might say.

So we discuss all ten principles; we discuss the ethos around which they circulate. We discuss the necessity of principled conception and action for psychological stability and social unity, and that constitutes the discussion. So you're welcome to watch and listen. Thanks very much.

All right, well hello Dr. Phil, it's very good to meet you, and thank you for agreeing to talk to me today. It seems like you're everywhere at the moment, and I want to talk about how you managed that. But I suspect it has something to do, at least, with the topic of your new book, which is "We've Got Issues."

Yeah, well that certainly seems to be the case. You start the book by outlining, in your estimation, well, by making the case that there is something that's under attack, or a set of things that are under attack, and you concentrate on Free Speech, Faith, and Family.

So I guess the first obvious question is, why do you believe that we're under attack, so to speak? Why that metaphor, under attack by what, and why did you pick those three principles as the central focus of your alert and your defense?

Great question, and it's so good to sit down and talk to you, so thank you for having me as a guest. I'm honored to be here.

Listen, I’ve been doing this for a long time, as have you, and I’ve been dealing with the public for a long time and listening to their questions. You know, we get tens of thousands of emails writing in, and I’ve noticed that they've really changed across time.

When you think about it, when I started out my career in psychology, it was, you know, way back in the 70s. So I’ve been through the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, all the way up till now. When I started out on television, it was 2002, and the first text message hadn’t even been sent at that point. So things have really changed, and the rate of change has really accelerated across time.

You know, a lot of this technology is good; I mean, there are great benefits from it, of course. But there are a lot of unintended side effects as well. And when I look at what's going on in this country, I think that...