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Phil McGraw

American television host and psychologist (born 1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionAug 29, 2026

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Source-derived summary

Phillip Calvin McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author who hosted the talk show Dr. Phil. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he ceased renewing his license to practice psychology in 2006.

Editorial summary

“Phil McGraw” enters the record as american television host and psychologist (born 1950). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Phil, McGraw and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Phil, McGraw and American.

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“Phil McGraw” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Phil, McGraw and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phil McGraw” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.