Posted by cricket on July 13, 2005, at 16:02:29
In reply to Re: I might... be getting a p-doc :-) » pinkeye, posted by alexandra_k on July 12, 2005, at 22:27:21
> 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.
Well at least he admitted it.> 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.
Maybe I am biased because of my pdoc and his extensive training in so many areas. But I think that all psychiatrists should have some kind of training in philosophy. They are dealing with the way we view the world, the way we view ourselves. I mean they are psychiatrists, not plastic surgeons.
> 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...
>
Exactly. So I think it would be refreshing for someone to get a chance to work with you. And maybe more challenging in some ways, but certainly more fulfilling too.
> 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.
Yeah, I guess that's it. It's probably an easier living just to talk at someone and give them drugs. But how boring!
> 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...
Alex, I think the right p-doc will be delighted to have you, just as you are, as a patient. He just has to find you :)
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