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Jordan Petersons dotter: ”Pappa var nära att dö”

Den omstridde psykologiprofessorn Jordan Petersons 27-åriga dotter Mikhaila berättar om familjens svåra år i ett videoinlägg som publicerats på Petersons Youtube-kanal.

Enligt henne har pappan fått vård på en rysk avgiftningsklinik, skriver Insider. För några år sedan uppges Peterson ha ordinerats bensodiazepin som svar på ett antiimmunt sjukdomstillstånd, vilket enligt dottern var kopplat till hans kost. Dosen ökades förra året när hans fru, Tammy Peterson, insjuknade i cancer. Dottern uppger att pappan varit ”nära att dö”.

Peterson är en populär profil i vissa konservativa kretsar och har skapat kontroverser med uttalanden om jämställdhet, hälsa och politisk korrekthet.

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Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.Peterson has bachelor's degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill from 1991 to 1993 before moving to Harvard University, where he was an assistant professor in the psychology department. In 1998, he returned to Canada to become a faculty member in the psychology department at the University of Toronto, where he eventually became a full professor.Peterson's first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and several other topics such as motivation for genocide. His second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, was published in January 2018.In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing political correctness and the Canadian government's Bill C-16, "An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code". The act added "gender identity and expression" as a prohibited ground of discrimination, which Peterson characterised as an introduction of compelled speech into law, although legal experts have disagreed. He subsequently received significant media coverage, attracting both support and criticism. Several writers have associated Peterson with an "Intellectual Dark Web".
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