This is a PhD in abnormal psychology. Most people I have met with this specialty as screwed up. They got this degree to unscrew themselves. It doesn’t work.
She is not the sharpest tool in the shed, and her writing just illustrates how worthless this degree can be.
Yes, I have read that many enter the field so as to be able to psychoanalyze themselves.
It's true. And most people in the field will tell you that themselves.
I have seen it stated elsewhere on FR that her PhD was in Educational Psychology. Educational Psych. (which would usually lead to EduD, or Doctor of Education) is very different, in my experience, from either scientific experimental psychology or clinical psychology. They use the same terms, but with different meanings; they have different theories of learning and memory, which could be why Dr. Ford's attempt to use technical jargon about memory sounded like gobbledygook to me. I had the same problem in the Education courses I took towards getting my teaching certificate.
So, which is it: a degree in Psychology, or Educational Psychology?
Little confused here. My Ph.D. program did not award Master’s degrees along the way ,unless you didn’t pass your comps. Then you were given a terminal Master’s with no possibility of continuing in the program. How did she get two Master’s before her Ph.D.?
A little unorthodox.