Jordan Peterson Is Not A Real Psychologist
That is, he has not studied most psychology
Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
Degrees of thought
Yes, I think Jordan Peterson earned his degree. I wonder in what time period?
What I have come to doubt is that he has studied all psychology other than the very much outdated Freudian, Jungian, and later, behaviorists of the mid 20th century. If so, that’s a lot to study. I know, because I have studied all of that, and much, much more.
What has Peterson learned about women’s psychology, and women’s studies? What about evolutionary psychology? What about social psychology, most especially along the lines of E.O. Wilson’s sociobiology?
These are just a few branches. There are so many more. For myself, I have spent a number of years on ecopsychology.
After studying Wilson, it seemed logical to learn as much as possible about how the human mind evolved as a social species — and more integrally — as a biological one. This, of course, leads to the inescapable reality that without social cooperation (not necessarily socialism)and systems theory, there really is no “psychology.”
It would be like saying the mind does not need plants and plankton, that is, oxygen, to allow the mind a brain.
Consider the lobster
Joe Rogan, aside, Peterson has made claims about his knowledge for years, and he behaves as though he is an educated authority on what human beings need to do to be better people — but not in regard to eating less meat, polluting less, demanding clean energy, or getting rid of special interests that are fine with a domination hierarchy, racism, and sexism.
He preaches that we each need to fix ourselves before we “fix the world.” As if, our bodies, air, water, soil, and habitats are not comprised of all that we collectively create in the world.
These lessons from his learned authority feel more mobster than lobster — that is, do as I tell you, or go swim with the fishes in a flooded world of nicely made beds.
To look at the world as something apart from the human mind is to simply ignore human psychology. What Peterson said recently, (on Rogan’s show) denying the climate heating disaster — which we are in, shows he does not understand science at all, much less the science of psychology as it relates to biology.
Put as simply as it can be, psychology is our thoughts, feelings, behavior and bodies in the real, three dimensional world where we evolved as an animal species. Since ours in the first species to significantly alter the world, and climate, our psychology is very important.
Leave out that, and you leave out “psychology.”