Found here are materials that aren’t particularly psychological or clinical in nature. I am including it because I do enjoy thinking and writing about a wide variety of topics. I enjoy story telling. I recently found myself writing a political/social opinion piece that took the form of a letter. I liked it enough to want to share it. I started thinking about finding a web service that would allow me to post blogs. Then I thought about this website and decided to add this page.
This is definitely the website of a person who operates a psychology clinic. During my long career, I’ve had numerous episodes of legal embroilment with my professional association. We have many differences of opinion. One such difference has to do with the meaning of these differences. Now clearly I can only give you my perspective. In my view, the fact that I differ from my professional body doesn’t need to mean anyone is wrong. In my view, they seem to think that where we differ, they are right and I am wrong and I need to see it their way. In the legal processes that stem from this difference of opinion about what our differences of opinion mean, I have generally prevailed.
The problem with legally addressing issues is that the legal process can only handle one at a time. There is a difference which has never been legally addressed. It is this: An overarching assumption seemingly made by my association is that if I am to be a psychologist, if I am to hold out services for hire as a psychologist, I must be a psychologist all the time and that is all I am allowed to be. From my perspective, that is one of the most grandiose delusions of control I have ever heard articulated anywhere. It’s stunning, actually. My view is that a psychologist is indeed one of the ways I manifest in the world, but it is certainly not the only one. I am entitled to manifest myself in the world in other ways, and I do. I am a musician. I am a singer/songwriter. I am a competitive ballroom dancer. I am a novelist. I like to write. I don’t seek trouble with my professional association. I am not going to try to avoid it by shutting down all that I am save being a psychologist.
I considered creating a different website for the material I plan to place here. But why? If I make it clear, and this is me doing that now, that this material is not particularly psychological in nature other than the fact that I wrote all of it, I’m pretty certain a reasonable person will not become confused about what I post. If you want from me only psychological stuff, stop reading this page right now, navigate to a different page and don’t come back. If you’re interested in reading just for the sake of reading it, or you find it of interest, feel free.
FAIR WARNING: What gets posted here may not meet your expectations, or be politically correct, or polite, or particularly astute. It may not be anything I continue to believe after I’ve written it. It will be my own, an honest reflection of what I was thinking when I wrote it. All of it will be something I thought at least once.
I do hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing. If you do, check back for more.
The moving finger, having written, moves on…