Tipsters, This is from another list. The title is misleading because most of these seem to apply to psychotherapist-type psychologists. FORWARD 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. -------------------------------------------------------- Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D. 125 Main St. Learn the Internet for APA credit Andover MA 01810 or Graduate credit. 978-475-7171 http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dr.a ************************************************************************* Jim Guinee, Ph.D. Training Director, Counseling Center Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Counseling Dept. of Health Sciences President-Elect, Arkansas College Counselor Assoc. University of Central Arkansas 313 Bernard Hall Conway, AR 72035 (501) 450-3138 (office) (501) 450-3248 (fax) "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy ************************************************************************
