What would Johnny Cash think of the psychiatry forum?

[nancysinatra]

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I would imagine psychoanalysis-steeped shrinky-type **** would get on my nerves too.

I don't mind it so much per se. Like, I like learning about Freud and all. But I mind when someone has become so permeated and overtaken by their identity as a "psychiatrist" that they themselves become weird.

Actually where I really see this is with certain chief residents. A little bit of power can be a really bad thing sometimes. Our chiefs are invariably chosen for their pleasant, docile, ingratiating personalities. (As opposed to say, their medical knowledge. I know this for a fact because none of our chiefs has taken Step 3 yet.) Anyway, if a lower year resident points out some problem in the program, you can bet they will tell that resident that they are showing "black and white thinking" or something else straight out of the CBT book. It's like all that training just got to their head.

If you were climbing a mountain and you were halfway up and saw that a blizzard was headed straight your way, or if you were in the jungle and saw a tiger running toward you, and you had to make a fast decision, and you pulled out your CBT manual and started comparing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, you would be dead. But honestly I think there are some people who don't realize this. There are some people who take this field way too seriously.

 

[Abider]

I don't mind it so much per se. Like, I like learning about Freud and all. But I mind when someone has become so permeated and overtaken by their identity as a "psychiatrist" that they themselves become weird.

Actually where I really see this is with certain chief residents. A little bit of power can be a really bad thing sometimes. Our chiefs are invariably chosen for their pleasant, docile, ingratiating personalities. (As opposed to say, their medical knowledge. I know this for a fact because none of our chiefs has taken Step 3 yet.) Anyway, if a lower year resident points out some problem in the program, you can bet they will tell that resident that they are showing "black and white thinking" or something else straight out of the CBT book. It's like all that training just got to their head.

If you were climbing a mountain and you were halfway up and saw that a blizzard was headed straight your way, or if you were in the jungle and saw a tiger running toward you, and you had to make a fast decision, and you pulled out your CBT manual and started comparing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, you would be dead. But honestly I think there are some people who don't realize this. There are some people who take this field way too seriously.

I see. I haven't been immersed in the subculture of psychiatry to know. But I always relate better to people who have physical side to them, either by work history or by habit of mind. Maybe all the concentration on the mind effects how we carry ourselves. But I plan to continue practicing yoga and want to learn jujitsu. To keep myself grounded. Because I totally agree that without sense of physical consequence--ie realizing you might get punched in the face for talking to people outside the medical hierarchy the way would to those underneath you in it--you diminish yourself greatly by imbalance.