Posted by zazenduck on April 11, 2006, at 9:15:25
In reply to Re: that brand of therapy ;-), posted by special_k on April 11, 2006, at 5:09:33
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> Maybe it is about... Training. And re: psychoanalysis... If you consider the majority have PhD's / are trained psychiatrists BEFORE undergoing how many years of training in psychoanalysis AND a course of analysis themselves...
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> Well that makes them the best trained.
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> Of course it might be a bit like a cult...
> (And from a lot of accounts that is exactly what it is like)
> But still... That is a significant amount of time to devote to studying something... And so you would expect that the average analyst... Would be *more interesting* to interact with at the very least.
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> lol.:) :) that's just what I used to say! plus poetry they always quote poetry. I always thought they never really wanted to be mds in the first place. their undergrad degrees were always liberal arts no bio or chemistry boys at all! I think tho the standards for getting into training institutes are falling as there is a smaller pool of applicants
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