#Self Help

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Phil McGraw in 2001, photographed by Jerry Avenaim for a Newsweek cover
TV 2002–2023

Dr. Phil

Television's tough-love Texan — the bald psychologist Oprah discovered in a courtroom and turned loose on daytime TV in 2002. For 21 seasons he grilled feuding families and troubled teens with folksy bluntness, until 'getting sent to Dr. Phil' became the culture's shorthand for an intervention.