Penn & Teller: Bull! - Season 3 - Eps 4: Life Coaching
Today, it's hip to have a therapist. In fact, you're really "in" if you skip doc's diagnosis and head straight to a "Life Coach" for motivation. The training of psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health "professionals" does little or nothing to make them better equipped as counselors or therapists. We'll reveal the bullshit that Freud made famous, and we'll find out what the experts think about the degree to which drug therapy is being used. Is it really helping? Or, are we over-medicating our way to an unknown future. We'll expose the truth behind the lucrative mind games industry, tracing its history to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. We'll weave our way through all the trends in psychobabble, including the latest scam, life coaching. We'll catch coaches in action as they celebrate International Coaching Week with an array of events and activities. To top it all off, we'll create our own psychotherapist and thread him throughout the show. Skip the therapy & coaching, talk to a good friend and take some notes during this episode of Bullshit!
About Penn & Teller: Bull!
Title: Penn & Teller: Bull!
First Air Date: 2003-01-24
Last Air Date: 2010-08-12
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.7/10 (from 112 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 9
Total Episodes: 89
Network: Showtime
Genres: Comedy, Documentary
Production Companies: Buggs and Rudy Discount Corporation, Wolper Productions
Synopsis
This daring original series stars postmodern bad boys of magic Penn & Teller as they question many of our culture's most cherished and widely held beliefs. From the truth about palm readings and TV psychics to the reality behind Feng Shui and Ouija boards, the archly comic masters of misdirection host this eye-opening analysis of the middle-ground between perception and reality.
Cast
Teller
Himself
Penn Jillette
Himself
