August 12, 2024
The world of mental healthcare is very much caveat emptor: buyer beware. Today, people looking to care for their mental health face a market with at least 600 “brands” of psychotherapy—and counting. Most are ineffective, and many could be harmful. The $5.6 trillion dollar wellness industry includes countless unregulated providers of mental health services looking to exploit people’s financial and emotional vulnerabilities.
Join us on Thursday, August 22, at 7:00 p.m. ET for our penultimate Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream of 2024. Our guest will be Jonathan Stea, a clinical psychologist who regularly deals with some of society’s most vulnerable people. Having seen so many of his patients hurt by pseudoscience, Stea is on a mission to expose its harm and protect the public from mental health misinformation. He’ll discuss and debunk the predatory pseudoscience and grift of the multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry and point us toward a better way to take care of our mental health.
This live Zoom event is free, but advance registration is required. Sign up today!
Jonathan Stea is a full-time practicing clinical psychologist and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Stea is a two-time winner of the University of Calgary’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Supervision and coeditor of the book Investigating Clinical Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies. Stea is a regular contributor to Scientific American and Psychology Today, among other outlets, and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows and podcasts. He was the 2022 recipient of the John G. Paterson Award from the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta, presented annually for the exceptional contribution to portraying psychological knowledge to the public.