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bucolic_frolic

(55,861 posts)
8. It's becoming a house of cards
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 10:23 PM
Jan 2023

The population is a bell-shaped curve for intelligence. An increasing proportion of people hold graduate degrees from marginal part time skeleton programs with instructors from less than first rate schools. The graduate of today is not the graduate of 35 years ago. Yet they pursue the degree for the prestige, they work because of the debts.

The alleged checks and balances are state licensing programs whose members are subject to the same erosion of standards and quality. Licensing is a minimum standard that is purchased for all effective purposes.

I don't, obviously, share your optimism. I suspect we are as often making people crazy or dependent as making people well.

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Kicking for visibility SheltieLover Jan 2023 #1
That's what psychologists do bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #2
Not good ones. nolabear Jan 2023 #6
It's becoming a house of cards bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #8
The entire field is riddled with junk science Major Nikon Jan 2023 #10
💯 Major, you should make this an OP. MerryBlooms Jan 2023 #12
There's too many who don't want to hear it Major Nikon Jan 2023 #18
I was helped tremendously by a therapist who specializes MerryBlooms Jan 2023 #21
I've dealt with a few in my day Genki Hikari Jan 2023 #25
Spot on. They're basically preachers. The ones I've met were all obvious narcissists. Gaugamela Jan 2023 #14
I don't even know how to respond to this. nolabear Jan 2023 #19
Then you guys need to provide a ratings service Genki Hikari Jan 2023 #26
I'm very sorry that was your experience. nolabear Jan 2023 #30
My Wife Had One Psych Doctor Like That ProfessorGAC Jan 2023 #31
That is so interesting Demovictory9 Jan 2023 #3
Thanks! Enjoyed your summary! imaginary girl Jan 2023 #4
Thank you for the cogent summary. It disabused me of previous misconceptions . . . Journeyman Jan 2023 #5
I had no idea. What a travesty. nolabear Jan 2023 #7
K & R BadgerMom Jan 2023 #9
r&k Thank you. MerryBlooms Jan 2023 #11
K/R Very enlightening, thanks. appalachiablue Jan 2023 #13
More of the blame women, first, propaganda machine dlk Jan 2023 #15
Thank you for this. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2023 #16
K & R SunSeeker Jan 2023 #17
K n R Thanks for posting...nt JoeOtterbein Jan 2023 #20
KNR and bookmarking. Thank you for this truly depressing, but not surprising, niyad Jan 2023 #22
The criticisms of Stockholm Syndrome are quite strong Kennah Jan 2023 #23
Nils Bejerot was an asshole on many fronts, one of worst of the influential Swedes. Celerity Jan 2023 #24
I had no idea! What an asshole. yardwork Jan 2023 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author BannonsLiver Jan 2023 #28
Very Interesting ProfessorGAC Jan 2023 #29
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