Comments on: Are Psychiatrists Psychoanalysing you? http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/are-psychiatrists-psychoanalysing-you/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/are-psychiatrists-psychoanalysing-you/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Paul Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:35:43 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/are-psychiatrists-psychoanalysing-you/#comment-291 My trainee clinpsy colleagues are always at it. I do it a little bit as well, although if I catch myself I feel slightly disappointed and, in quiet desperation, I might murmer something like "what have I become?" We all analyse each other now. Instead of getting angry we mentally construct a psychological formulation of the person's difficult behaviour, ultimately drawing forth a sense of compassion (and perhaps a little smugness?) I prefer it now if people just call me a w**ker. At least they're not assuming they've got me all figured out. My trainee clinpsy colleagues are always at it. I do it a little bit as well, although if I catch myself I feel slightly disappointed and, in quiet desperation, I might murmer something like “what have I become?”

We all analyse each other now. Instead of getting angry we mentally construct a psychological formulation of the person’s difficult behaviour, ultimately drawing forth a sense of compassion (and perhaps a little smugness?)

I prefer it now if people just call me a w**ker. At least they’re not assuming they’ve got me all figured out.

]]> By: NorthernIrelandExile http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/are-psychiatrists-psychoanalysing-you/comment-page-1/#comment-273 NorthernIrelandExile Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:18:16 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/are-psychiatrists-psychoanalysing-you/#comment-273 Interestingly, several of my close friends are doctors, and they have developed over time a way of noticing and observing things that others just wouldn't notice. As a lawyer, people often say to me, ' well I'd better not break the law in your company' but of course, in social settings, I am never consciously observing people with a view to seeing whether they are breaking the law... which is not to say I wouldn't notice it were it to happen!!! So maybe if the people that you have met in company has displayed behaviours that merited psychoanalysing, then perhaps you would find yourself doing it? Interestingly, several of my close friends are doctors, and they have developed over time a way of noticing and observing things that others just wouldn’t notice.

As a lawyer, people often say to me, ‘ well I’d better not break the law in your company’ but of course, in social settings, I am never consciously observing people with a view to seeing whether they are breaking the law… which is not to say I wouldn’t notice it were it to happen!!!

So maybe if the people that you have met in company has displayed behaviours that merited psychoanalysing, then perhaps you would find yourself doing it?

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