For my clinician pals - NJM
>Forward---------------------------------------------------- > >This was sent by Steve Ragusea, an officer in APA > >Top Ten...Clues that you are probably a Psychologist. > >10. You were trained as a scientist, and your profession's journals >reject 80% of submitted manuscripts. >9. You don't dare move out of state for fear that you might not be able >to get licensed in the other state. >8. You have just spent $450 on a professional workshop, plus another >$650 on travel and hotel expenses to find out what you had hoped you >would learn is unethical to do without a two year post-doctoral program. >7. You have a doctoral degree but make less than occupational therapists >and physical therapists with a bachelors degree. Your professional >association encourages you to provide free services. >6. Even though you have just completed 6 years of post graduate >training, and have a doctoral degree, you still need two years of >supervision to be allowed to take a licensing examination. >5. Your main competitors for jobs have masters and bachelors degrees. >4. Your colleagues who were appalled at the use of medications to treat >behavioral disorders ten years ago ard now active advocates of >prescription privileges. >3. You are in a doctoral training program that requires an internship >and there aren't any. >2. The professors who taught the core content of the background and >discipline of your profession publically express serious doubt about >whether your applied activities have any validity or merit. >1. Your colleagues have vigorously and publically debated whether >schizophrenia really exists for the past 50 years, and your are >genuinely perplexed as to why the Alliance for the Mentally Ill is not >impressed with psychologists. .............................. Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Forensic Division - 4th floor 250 College Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 1R8 CANADA (416) 979-4747 ext. 2317 ______________________________________________________________________ To post to this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To "UNSUBscribe NEWPSYCHLIST", send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Cantor, NewPsychList Manager ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
