[poquas]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

poquas wrote:

Transpersonal Psychology. That's the equivalent of the fringe religious practice in my field. Personally, I don't put much "faith" into it.

Funny, a friend and former classmate of mine who is a psychiatrist, says that about psychology in general. According to him, if it were really a science it wouldn't be part of the Arts program. Then again he thinks chiropractors are quacks and and charlatans too...at least he tells his wife that, who happens to be one.

Well it's a good thing I have the same credentials as your friend. I picked the field of psychology AFTER my MD.

[ShepherdsDog]

Uh huh, shouldn't you be referring to yourself as a psychiatrist rather than a psychologist then? There is a big difference.

[poquas]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

Uh huh, shouldn't you be referring to yourself as a psychiatrist rather than a psychologist then? There is a big difference.

No. I practised clinical psychology. Not Psychiatry. You’re right, there is a difference.

I didn't have to intern......

[ShepherdsDog]

So you you did an MD, and then went back to school to do a Ph.D in psychology? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have done your residency in psychiatry. Sorry, it's just that I have a mixed class of 10 residents right now and I posed your scenario to them. Two of them are Psych residents and they can't understand why you would do that.

[poquas]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

So you you did an MD, and then went back to school to do a Ph.D in psychology? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have done your residency in psychiatry. Sorry, it's just that I have a mixed class of 10 residents right now and I posed your scenario to them. Two of them are Psych residents and they can't understand why you would do that.

I did the MD route and decided my interest was in the behavioural sciences. It’s actually not that difficult. Credit is given and the route wasn’t as convoluted as you might think, but I know three colleagues that went similar routes. I was far more interested in understanding why people do what they do while excluding the medical reason for their actions. There’s a huge crossover, in fact in the latter part of my practice, I referred a great number of patients to psychiatrists for treatment of behavioural problems due to medical issues. Stranger than that, I have two friends that are both lawyers and doctors. That’s a lot harder to understand. I still don’t see the commonality of interest.

A lot of my career was dealing with extreme stress conditions in the Police, military and the like. Much more in the research field.

[Kirk]

What if God was the judge.....and

What if hell was punishment for being a bad soul.....and the severity of your crime was served by the amount of time spent here on earth.....so earth is hell?