Posted by emmanuel98 on March 9, 2011, at 19:52:16
In reply to Re: NYT Article - Psychiatrist's rationalization$$, posted by Phillipa on March 9, 2011, at 13:28:16
I saw my psychiatrist for five years for weekly therapy. He was great and had been trained in dynamic therapy back in the late 60s and early 70s when most therapy was done by psychiatrists. He told me he studied psychology as an undergraduate and was planning on doing a PsyD, but was so disgusted by the controversies in psychology at the time (Skinner and all) that he went to med school instead.
Unlike the doctor in the NYT article, he sees med patients every two months for half-an-hour (not 15 minutes). He insisted I see a DBT therapist before I stopped therapy with him and they talk at least once a month.
But the interesting is that the insurance company pays my DBT therapist (an LICSW with loads of experience) $65 an hour and allows my psychiatrist $115 an hour for therapy. Of course this is nothing compared to what he could make by seeing four patients an hour for meds. But he doesn't work that way and has a lot of long term therapy patients including a lot of schizophrenics whom he sees for supportive therapy.
I know he is a rarity these days and I'm glad to have found him.
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