A professor of psychology can legitimately be called a psychologist without a license.
“Also in the opening paragraph is this tidbit: Someone at Stanford University also appears to have caught the blunder and edited Ford’s faculty page.”
The article says in CA you are not ALLOWED to call yourself a psychologist unless you are licensed. Odd, but ..
Under California law, as with almost every other state, in order for a person to identify publicly as a psychologist they must be licensed by the California Board of Psychology, a process that includes 3,000 hours of post-doctoral professional experience and passing two rigorous exams.
To call oneself a psychologist without being licensed by a state board is the equivalent of a law school graduate calling herself a lawyer without ever taking the bar exam.
According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. A recent search through the Department of Consumer Affairs License Bureau, which provides a state-run database of all licensed psychologists in California, produced no results for any variation of spelling on Ford’s name.
If Ford at one time had a license but it is now inactive, she would legally still be allowed to call herself a “psychologist” but forbidden from practicing psychology on patients until it was renewed. However, the database would have shown any past licenses granted to Ford, even if they were inactive.
She has not passed the exam required for license in CA. As she lives and works there, that is pretty major.
[Also, she goes by Paula Blasey on FB.]