Posted by alexandra_k on July 12, 2005, at 22:27:21
In reply to Re: I might... be getting a p-doc :-) » alexandra_k, posted by pinkeye on July 12, 2005, at 21:24:48
Mmm.
I think I try to be careful...
They don't often ask me what I think - they just launch into what they think.
But then I get to comment on what they have to say.
So I do tell them what I think. But in bits. As it is suitable. I think it probably is true that I've thought about it a hell of a lot more than they have. They come to know me over time...
I gave one of my old p-doc's a paper I had written on it - but that was in our last session together.
He emailed me - mostly to say that he got lost with the transition to the philosophy stuff.
Sigh.
Still, it confirmed that I am used to writing to an audience of philosophers (who have a tendancy to get lost with the transition to the mental illness stuff.)
Sigh.
But then he wasn't academically inclined...
But I hear what you are saying and I am careful.I would hope they know that knowing something rationally is different from experiencing it.
I would hope that they would feel excited about my willingness to think hard about stuff and my ability to think rationally (at times).
If they aren't...
Well... Then we aren't suited to each other, really.
But yeah, it makes it something of a problem.
Most certainly with community mental health where I think the average client might have something like 3 years of secondary school...I guess it depends on how much they are prepared to try to work WITH me
Or how much they are used to talking AT someone and giving them drugs.
It is up to them it is up to them
But that being said I appreciate that there are things that I can do to make that easier...
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