tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post114139814478424452..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Playing the mind guerrillaThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1141503053259247782006-03-04T20:10:00.000+00:002006-03-04T20:10:00.000+00:00Vaughan, you are very kind. Charles, yes, uncertai...Vaughan, you are very kind. <BR/><BR/>Charles, yes, <I>uncertain health</I>. I suppose when I was into this I really had it in mind that I would, very soon, get completely better and never look back. <BR/><BR/>I did see a psychiatrist who hardly made eye-contact with me. I wound up telling him more than I intended in an attempt to shock the guy into looking up. But he was good, in the end, if disconcerting.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1141473501048322472006-03-04T11:58:00.000+00:002006-03-04T11:58:00.000+00:00Random thoughts on clinical psychiatry.....I hope ...Random thoughts on clinical psychiatry.....I hope pete reads this post because he knows much more about this than I do.....you don't have to be a "sympathetic" person; in fact, it's better if you are emotionally detached, because otherwise your feelings will get in the way of your judgement....far more important to be interested in what makes people tick, which you are....also important to have the intelligence and judgement to pick your way through the maze of theorizing, and to notice when the theorist is, in fact, projecting his/her own neuroses onto a subject......remember that "dealing with people" is a skill like any other, it comes, if at all, with practice.....and is most practised by car salesmen, estate agents, cold-callers and the like, not by clinicians.....the patient is more interested in the end result than in your charm and bedside manner.....nonetheless, uncertain health is a definite no-no, because you cannot afford not to be there when you are supposed to be; other people's lives depend on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1141434224257030142006-03-04T01:03:00.000+00:002006-03-04T01:03:00.000+00:00A brilliant and thought-provoking post.And whilst ...A brilliant and thought-provoking post.<BR/><BR/>And whilst I can certainly understand completely not having the gift to *deal* with people, I would also say that you absolutely *do* have a gift for understanding people (in my experience).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com