In 2022, Peterson signed a content distribution deal with conservative media company The Daily Wire and became Chancellor of Ralston College. In 2021, he published his third book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, resigned from the University of Toronto, and returned to podcasting. Throughout 20, Peterson suffered health problems in the aftermath of severe benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome. Promoted with a world tour, it became a bestseller in several countries. In 2018, he paused both his clinical practice and teaching duties and published his second book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

He received significant media coverage, attracting both support and criticism. Peterson claimed that the bill would make the use of certain gender pronouns, ' compelled speech', and related this argument to a general critique of political correctness and identity politics. In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce ' gender identity and expression' as prohibited grounds for discrimination. The book combined psychology, mythology, religion, literature, philosophy and neuroscience to analyze systems of belief and meaning. In 1999, he published his first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, which became the basis for many of his subsequent lectures. After researching and teaching at Harvard University, he returned to Canada in 1998 and became a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. īorn and raised in Alberta, Peterson obtained bachelor's degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Alberta and a PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.

He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator.

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