Posted by Eddie Sylvano on November 26, 2003, at 16:15:51
In reply to Re: Opposite gender therapists a bad idea?, posted by femlite on November 26, 2003, at 13:40:36
> I really think a prescriptive therapist is the idea model and this one is the only one in my town.
----------That idea makes a good deal of sense to me, too. I know that Illinois allows therapists with certain credentials to prescribe psychotropics.
I'm trying to get a gague on what patients want in a therapist because I'm again having the intense desire to chuck computer programming and become a therapist. It's a field that I read about endlessly as it is, and feel that I could do very well in. Maybe it's from being a middle child, an introverted observer, or just good luck, but I feel as though I have a better than average ability to read people, and an unshakeable, patient, dispassionate nature. It shocks me to hear some of the things on the board about the behavior of therapists. There evidently aren't enough good ones.
Along another vein, I can understand the concern that a therapist not be dim-witted. It's hard to take advice or guidance from someone who doesn't inspire much confidence or authority, and seems to be following a reference algorithm of treatment without much deeper understanding than its execution. I can do better than that.
poster:Eddie Sylvano
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