Psychologist

Update: Apparently 12 Psychology-fanatics disagree w/me. Let's go for 20! I wonder if it's the same people from the Ron Paul reviews who give me all the disagrees. Anyway, I stand by what I say....anyone who uses the title of Dr. that isn't in a medical profession is on the biggest fucking ego-trip of his or her life. Also, Zoe, thanks for the great comment you deleted about how psychologists are better educated than physicians. What fucking planet do you live on? Melmac, I bet.

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The worst psychologists are the ones who refer to themselves as 'Dr.' I fucking hate that. Is there a doctor on the plane? Yeah, raise your hand, Dr. Phil--you fucking douche! 'Dr' should be reserved for medical professions. Aynway, I'm sure there are a lot of psychologists that help people, but it seems that most of them are about as stupid as well... psychology majors.

I have worked as a therapist for many years and have met with many different types of people. I truly enjoy my job and being able to help others. I try my best not to do any harm to anyone because people come to therapy to feel better, not worse. I don't worry about theorhetical stuff but focus on the here and now. Try to help the person see things from a different perspective.

Great psychologists that can truly help traumatized people without putting them into categories and regurgitating what they read in an obscure book are extremely rare.

The rest of them are crap.

Dr. Oberschneider, Ashburn Psychological Associates The first thing that a medical professional should do is "no harm." Dr. Oberschneider has a bad tendency to become blinded by the great volume of information presented to him on cases. This clearly benefits nobody, and certainly not the patient. Academic courses that should have been absorbed during his training that would train a therapist not to 'become part of the problem" by immersing himself into the patient's dilemma appear not to have been helpful to allowing him to avoid these harmful transference problems.

If you're crazy enough to think about this as a career, read this first:
http://carolynbaker.net/2011/05/01/peak-psychotherapy-abundance-of-human-connection-by-carolyn-baker/

Rebecca J Danelski LCSW has left me pretty traumatized by her behavior. I had no idea it would be as bad as it became. I think that you really have to know what you are doing because it can truly harm people that are already vulnerable. My life has crumbled to bits but it's one small step at a time.

This is a great site. Thanks.

In the past 2 years, I've been through 5 psychologists (4 in individual sessions, 1 in group therapy). The reason for this is because it took me 2 years to find a psychologist that actually worked - and I finally hit it on the 5th one.

If you do choose to go into this business, make sure that the words of wisdom you give to your clients can be concretely used in their lives. Hiding behind theories will do very little, and may even be counterproductive.

(And to the poster above who said that university counseling centers hide behind research - Agreed. I saw a psychologist at a university counseling center who gave me a ton of books on racial stereotypes - her field of interest - but did nothing to help me.)

It seems like a decent enough job, you work in a nice professional office setting. You have a roster of patients who are slightly neurotic in an amusing kind of way, they show up on time every week and always pay their bills. Your wisecracking receptionist is always there with a cup of coffee when you need it. Then you go home and enjoy your evening with your attractive husky-voiced wife and your quirky airline pilot nieghbour dealing with the amusing little problems of being a well paid urban denizen in downtown Chicago. Of course everything I know about the job I learned from Bob Newhart.

Stay away from Alikakos in West Chester, PA / Philadelphia, PA.
He subcontracts MOST of his work (bait and switch), accepts any patient
whether he can help or not and has an overblown ego.

University psych clinics are the worse. Undergrads are coerced by the need for research credit to serve as subjects for doctoral students. Emphasis is on using clients as subjects to try out their theories which are behind their research which is driven by the need to publish. There seems to be little interest in actually helping clients. Stay away from university psych clinic especially Georgia!

When doctor got his work to do to accomplish his pal believe me your life may be torn apart. I have to get pieces my broken life together for long years after encountered with bureaucracy.

A valuable profession, but you'd better be chock full of insight and ambition since this is a competitive field to get it into. I'm glad to have taken some psychology courses in college, but also glad I didn't have as hard a time after graduation as those who chose this as their final major and weren't A+ students.

Psychology is undoubtedly an extremely intriguing subject. I don't know too many people that aren't interested in the behavior of others. I'm actually considering going into psychiatry. Unlike Medgar, I find it fascinating that all of our subjective emotions could be controlled by objective chemicals. If I do find enough evidence to support that claim, you can bet I will be studying it a great deal in the future. Then you'll hear about all the discoveries I'm making and remember that time you knew me...if only you knew my name...

I know these people have to make a living, but is charging $100 for an hour of small-talk the way you want to go? Think about it.

We all have a fascination with the mind. I'd enjoy being a psychologist. Now what's the deal? Which one prescribes medecine and which one does therapy- psyCHOLOGist or psyCHIATrist? I'd rather do the therapy. I really dislike the idea that all our thoughts are made of chemicals. That means that the chemicals control themselves, and does that mean that there is no ME and I have no personality? Well gee. I'd prefer doing therapy, working through problems with people and the like. But I still don't like having pills control our emotions. Sometimes they may be necessary. I can imagine this is an interesting profession. Probably the only type of doctor I could handle being; I'd pass out in a flash cutting into people....

I'm an undergraduate psychology student and I think the field is just amazing. It's interesting to learn about how the mind works and what can go wrong and things like that. I know the pay might not always be great, but I don't care.

To be able to understand how human thinks and to be able analyze their behaviour and make conclusions on it is an extremelly interesting profession. It involves alot of phylosophy, and your point of view is most likely always different because you have the ability to see things differently specially in people.

Absolutely fascinating. My sister is a clinical psychologist and she is so smart. She can give the best insight and advice out of anyone I know. She is also the best listener (for all I know she is analyizing me everytime I tell her something). I love listening to people and I like to offer advice or help (to the best of my non-psychologist degree). I am just so intrigued by people and their motivations on doing, acting, saying certain things (including myself) and being a psychologist would perhaps help me understand better.

I think if I could go back to college again, I'd seriously consider training to be a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist. I'm fascinated by psychology, especially depth psychology, and I have to think it would be an amazing experience to help someone deal with something like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or multiple personalities. Plus you could mess with people at parties by pretending that their dreams signal deeply held emotional complexes.