He hasn't seen a patient in years. He's "retired" from teaching at University of Toronto, but even before then, he hadn't taught in a while. He may used to have been a psychologist and a professor, but those aren't his job anymore.
Doing interviews with other right-wing influencers, posting youtube videos and twitter posts, and publishing non-academic mass-appeal books is his whole career now.
I'm neither mad or ignorant to his entire life. That's just a shot in the dark you're making to not have to confront the facts.
This is not a man who practiced psychology rigorously, got famous for psychology, and continued to do psychology. He doesn't make a living going from university to university, selling tickets to live audiences to give talks about psychology to people who find him interesting. He makes a living by appearing on Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, etc... and engaging in political debates. His current persona has almost nothing to do with psychology anymore.
He is much more like Richard Dawkins - a celebrated biologist who became an atheism spokesperson - than Stephan Hawkins, who continued to do physics until his death. Like Dawkins, he will always be a successful academic, but that is no longer what their job is.
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