I'll appreciate it quite a bit less, as this tantrum suggests that he fears being liable for just how much of is patients' experience he shared. The fear-of-doxxing charade never held water, borne out by how comfortable he felt siccing his community on the NYT reporter.

Tucker Carlson recently perfomed the same kind of cynical rhetorical judo. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/21/tucker-carl...)

Influential platforms do, once in a while, see a drop of accountability. The reaction to it is telling

AFAIK sharing anonymized patient stories is pretty standard.

It may be the case that he did not do his due diligence to sufficiently anonymize them. This is from the APA:

4.07 Use of Confidential Information for Didactic or Other Purposes

Psychologists do not disclose in their writings, lectures, or other public media, confidential, personally identifiable information concerning their clients/patients, students, research participants, organizational clients, or other recipients of their services that they obtained during the course of their work, unless (1) they take reasonable steps to disguise the person or organization, (2) the person or organization has consented in writing, or (3) there is legal authorization for doing so.

https://www.apa.org/ethics/code

Well, if he did disclose PII, then surely there's enough to identify one of them, right?