Good as this pshrink’s evaluation appears, I have a profound distrust for psychiatrists and psychologists. My experience is with psychologists so I don[t really don’t have much basis for distrusting psychiatrists, but I have dealt with many psychologists, almost all in regard to other people or socially and I find the whole “science” to be fraudulent and there is no group of people on earth so prone to fads.
I earned a PhD in psychology many years ago with the stupid idea I would have a chance to help people who were suffering.
I agree 100% with your comment. Psychologists keep people in “therapy” for years and years, digging about in their childhood, a “method” that has NEVER shown to have positive clinical outcomes.
I’ve found a small handful of clinicians who do good work, short term solution focused work when someone simply gets stuck. But the majority are an embarrassment.
Incidentally I left clinical practice after 7 years and went a different direction.
They’re a joke.