Jordan Peterson says the Ontario College of Psychologists has proposed disciplinary action after more than a dozen complaints were made. Read more
Peterson catapulted to fame in 2016, following his public objections to specific provisions of legislation that would add protections for transgender people to Canada’s human rights codes. Peterson has since become a widely read and popular cultural critic; his two books, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, are best-sellers.
Peterson has yet to make public the details of any remaining complaints, beyond noting that in the complaints, he is accused of being “sexist, transphobic, incapable of the requisite body positivity in relationship to morbid obesity and, unforgivably of all, a climate change denialist.”Peterson’s private practice has been suspended since 2017, which, he says, was “when my rising notoriety or fame made continuing as a private therapist practically and ethically impossible.
to improve his clinical practice; while there are few details of what constituted professional misconduct, the complaint against him had to do with the quality of his service, psychologist/patient boundaries and the way he communicates with his patients.Article content Peterson says that none of the people who have levied complaints against him are — or have ever been — his clients, and says that “half” of them falsely claimed to be patients. “I’m going to say what I have to say, and let the chips fall where they will. I have done nothing to compromise those in my care; quite the contrary — I have served all my clients and the millions of people I am communicating with to the best of my ability and in good faith, and that’s that,” he writes.
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