I was there

Regular readers know that I am a fan of the blog, 1boringoldman. Last week he did a post that set me to reflecting on my own career. In a long and lonely wait, he describes his experience of having his identity as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst pretty much thrown on the trash heap by the powers that be who are considered the leaders in psychiatry today.  Wednesday I was at a meeting of the curriculum committee of our Senior College and there was talk of developing a course looking at the future. One of the other members asked if I would be interested in taking an hour or so to look at mental health and I said sure. Then he asked if I expected there would be psychotherapists like me in 30 years. That question knocked me back a bit and set me to reflecting. I fell in love with psychotherapy, more specifically depth analysis and therapy in college as I read case studies and theories. There is something about the patient willingness to sit with another person who is trying to untangle her life, to make sense of the story she is living that grabbed me then and grabs me still. 
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs