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**antiggill** · 01-21-2009, 07:44 PM

The particular class I wanted the book for is intro to psych. I don't need to belittle the teacher any, he does it so well himself. He has a PhD in Psychology and has never practiced or done studies, he got his PhD and went straight to teaching. Which is fine I suppose, but he still calls himself a psychologist.

1) Psychologist != psychiatrist; he shouldn't have ever had a patient on his couch

2) He has done some amount of original research, by virtue of the fact that he got a PhD.
1) Psychiatrist = Psychologist with a prescription pad.

2) Driving a car once or twice does not make you a CIA wheelman. Experience goes a long way to refining knowledge.

3) I still respect that he has a PhD and that that is a difficult thing to achieve. I just think he needs to stop calling himself a psychologist when he isn't. Or at the very least drop it at saying "I am a psychologist..." and not go on to say "...even though I've never practiced or done studies!"

01-21-2009, 07:44 PM	#8
antiggill Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	The particular class I wanted the book for is intro to psych. I don't need to belittle the teacher any, he does it so well himself. He has a PhD in Psychology and has never practiced or done studies, he got his PhD and went straight to teaching. Which is fine I suppose, but he still calls himself a psychologist. 1) Psychologist != psychiatrist; he shouldn't have ever had a patient on his couch 2) He has done some amount of original research, by virtue of the fact that he got a PhD. 1) Psychiatrist = Psychologist with a prescription pad. 2) Driving a car once or twice does not make you a CIA wheelman. Experience goes a long way to refining knowledge. 3) I still respect that he has a PhD and that that is a difficult thing to achieve. I just think he needs to stop calling himself a psychologist when he isn't. Or at the very least drop it at saying "I am a psychologist..." and not go on to say "...even though I've never practiced or done studies!"
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