What kind of psychological screening do psychologists and psychiatrists undergo?

[Jeff Chandler]

They undergo an intense series of the most sophisticated tests to determine if they are insane.

But psychopaths are not considered insane. It is a personality disorder. So the questions are: Are they tested for psychopathy, and if so, couldn't they fake their way through?

[Redleg Duke]

Sort of an analogy about attorneys. Ninty-nine point nine of them make all of them look bad!

[luckodeirish]

Yes they could.
I am academically trained as a PhD level psychologist, the only “screening” we had to undergo was one year of “therapy”.

I will fully admit many of my classmates and colleagues are nuts. I left clinical practice after about 8 years because I felt that people who needed help could benefit from a “tune up” of about 6 sessions then be encouraged to move on, but the very field of psychology supports long term (mortgage paying) therapy for almost all clients. Long term of course has NEVER been proven to be effective, in fact, it causes clients to feel worse, as they have become a professional patient.

Some cases perhaps need longer term work, but then again, finding a therapist who is not a lunatic is hard for people.

My experience and opinion only.

[HangnJudge]

A psychopaths is not affected by stress
in the same way psychotypical people are,
so it would stand to reason he would be able
to handle the pressure of medical school quite easily.

This would explain the Psychopaths I've seen
in high level Surgical Specialties

I am a Neurologist, I know enough Psychiatry to fake it,
but have never learned how to genuinely heal,
without pointing people to Jesus.
Or reminding people of the Second Great Command
Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself
And treat the command as an algebra equation

Unfortunately I'm a Codependent Empath
which makes treating Psychiatric Conditions dangerous, to me

Learned that lessen the hard way...

Live In Peace

[Crucial]

In the psychiatric field, the crazier, the better.

[Chickensoup]

zero accountability?

Let’s see.

Constant threat of lawsuits.

If a psychiatrist discharges a patient from a facility and the patient commits suicide within 3 - 5 days the psychiatrist, the staff, and the facility undergo a virtual colonoscopy by quasi governmental powers and licenses and livelihoods hang in balance.

Every word written in a chart and or dictated needs to be written with the understanding it is a legal document and can be used in court, against the writer.

Treating people with thought disorders of one kind or another leave these people open to the legal craziness that only the mentally ill can provide.

Spend much time with the paranoid?

How about people who are so psychotic that they cannot even see or hear through their hallucinations?

How about people who are dangerous, verbally abusive, violent, and cunning?

How about people who are willing to kill themselves and sometimes they will take others too, because they are not thinking very clearly?

These are some of the people that the professions of psychiatry psychology, counseling, and nursing deal with on a daily basis in out patient and inpatient settings.

Easy to judge when you dont know much.

[Fitzwaryn]

I got a BA in Psych then spent 3 yrs studying Clinical Psych.
I quit and went into computers after finally having to accept that the people running the field needed help much more than most of the patients with whom I dealt.

[Chickensoup]

But psychopaths are not considered insane. It is a personality disorder. So the questions are: Are they tested for psychopathy, and if so, couldn’t they fake their way through?

Of course not, I said deviously.

[Veto!]

Good friend is in throes of divorce from a shrink. He’s a very polished, nice looking guy with at least one girlfriend and a definite boyfriend. Long marriage, three grown kids....it’s about time she dumped the guy. Acrimonious big-money divorce.

Before he left. home (yesterday), she got the key to his “private” wine cabinet. (Community property, after all). I must say he has/had excellent taste in wine. I keep telling her to get an extremely tough lawyer, but she wants to be “fair” about everything.

Nice carried to it’s stupid extreme.

[x]

Many early psychoanalysts were positively loopy.

Masud Khan was a narcissist, possibly a psychopath.

[Openurmind]

My mother is an absolute psychopath and a mental health professional. Does this give me an out?

[Retvet]

I’m crazy enough to believe they could.

[Karoo]

Yes...and some are.

[SkyPilot]

Modern psychiatry and psychology are completely secular and give little to zero credence to the concepts of good, evil, God, Satan, or sin.

99% of them are no better than witch doctors.

They care nothing about what Almighty God has to say on the subject of the soul and mind, but instead are filled with their own sense of self-importance.

They create "isms", "phobias", and "syndromes" like you or I change socks. Their solution to intense human suffering is drug up the patient with a cocktail of drugs whose side effects are often a hellish nightmare unto themselves. Then, they charge you and your insurance company astronomical fees for usually doing more harm than good.

If someone really wants to find help, pray for them, and pray with them. Find them a good Biblical counselor or support group.

[Jeff Chandler]

That doesn’t answer my questions.

[Chickensoup]

there is no such thing as a nice divorce. Especially with a guy like that.

I tell people in those circumstances, get a gun of a lawyer. NOW.

[Albion Wilde]

When the #MeToo movement broke out, the first person I thought of was a psychologist who practiced in the city where I lived.

[logi_cal869]

None.

Most seek the education to figure out their own effed-up heads.

Then they get board-certified.

That speaks volumes.