He later transferred to the University of Alberta, where he completed his B.A. During this time he read The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, which significantly affected his educational focus and worldview. In 2022, Peterson resigned from his position as full professor of the University of Toronto, becoming professor emeritus.Īfter graduating from Fairview High School in 1979, Peterson entered Grande Prairie Regional College to study political science and English literature, studying to be a corporate lawyer. In 2021, he published his third book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, and returned to active podcasting.
Throughout 20, Peterson's work was obstructed by health problems in the aftermath of severe benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome. Promoted with a world tour, it became a bestseller in several countries. He put his clinical practice and teaching duties on hold by 2018, when he published his second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He subsequently received significant media coverage, attracting both support and criticism.Īfterwards, Peterson's lectures and conversations-propagated especially through podcasts and YouTube-gathered millions of views. He argued that the bill would make the use of certain gender pronouns into 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 a prohibited grounds of discrimination. The book combined information from 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 teaching and research at Harvard University, he returned to Canada in 1998 to permanently join the faculty 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. 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 clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and professor emeritus of psychology.
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