Understanding my psychologist

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what type of therapy is it? If you are not comfortable with her I would change.

There has been interesting research specifically with PTSD, which disproves the freudian idea of repression.

Btw they this is not how they check for schizophrenia or irrational beliefs because what somebody might believe can vary considerably so bringing up specific beliefs that may be irrational is not necessarily going to make them 'bite hook line and sinker'. Somebody who is paranoid may well be uncooperative to such questions.

Psychosis is primarily diagnosed through disordered thoughts and language i.e. 'word salad' and not making rational responses to questions.

If you are fairly coherent and rational it is unlikely that they would think you have psychosis at that time.

IMO psychology tends to attract wacky people who don't have enough respect for scientific rigor to go into other medical fields or other sciences but yet do not tow ideological lines enough to make it in sociology.

She never gave their names. But she did sound silly because she said "I guess I can tell this because I won't tell their names so it wouldn't infringe on patient confidentiality." From the research I did I know she has been practicing at least 14 years thus it sounds really goofy the way she worded that. Therefore I think that little sentence was a very feeble attempt at making her look more approachable, maybe even naive like I am. Sorry lady I didn't fall for it. Yes I may be a naive country bumpkin, but I also have a high IQ and am not some moron. I hate the mirroring technique because they taught that too us when I was working in sales.

Its suppose to be psycho-therapy as far as I know. I can't exactly change because she is the only one in the area who has treated brain injury clients.

Can you tell me about this PTSD research you were talking about? I'd like to hear more. The drs are arguing over whether I have it or just severe anxiety. But if I have flashbacks of the lightning strike, nightmares, night sweats on nightly basis and freeze to the spot and can't move when I hear thunder isn't that a good indicator I have PTSD from the lightning strike? I'd like to get treatment for this whatever it is before I get zapped a 4th time. I got popped in the hearing aids of all things this summer because I froze up on the porch after a lightning bolt struck the woods in front of my place. Because I got scared and couldn't move nor figure out what to do the lightning somehow got my hearing aids then I felt a terrible painful stabbing in the little bone behind the ear where the HA rests against it. My audiologist said I got struck again after I told her the story and asked what on Earth happened. I'm still haunted by the first strike and also I still freak out and have flashbacks when I am around bodies of water because of the near drowning experience when I was a kid. (Cousin held me underwater till I went unconscious then left me laying on the bottom of the pool. A stranger resuscitated me. )

And how do they check for schizophrenia out of curiousity? I was told by Voc counselor its ok to quiz my psych on why she is asking the questions she asks. But I suppose that will cause me to get slapped with an oppositional disorder for questioning her.

actually, that's a pretty accepted thing. most will ask about religion, and people who feel positive about religion will be encouraged to use that as a support system, etc. questions about religion are on most intake exams.

i've never dealt with a "new age-y" one, but it is not just an expression that, "The field attracts!"

people may joke about it, but it's true. tons of psychologists are nuts.
but it is also a fact which can be independant of their usefulness.
plenty of sane people are idiots too.

Yeah...I've been at disagreement with my psychologist a bit lately. She's very nice and means well, but she seems to suspect I have a new neurological condition every week. ADD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Asperger's...

hmm...i'm not sure what to think... when her collegue the neuropsych did my eval she asked me several questions about God...like did I have a special relationship with him... so I just said I believed in God but didn't feel any more special than anyone else.... she asked some other questions I can't remember the exact wording of. but basically she was wanting to know if someone thought that God came by for a teaparty with you every day at noon or something. i assumed she was looking for a reason to lock someone in the looney bin. i noticed she seemed to mark points off my score for admitting belief in God. i took that to mean if the psych was athetist then they believed the faithful were morons. so its all in what the psych believes even if the psych is the one that's fruitloops. the highschool psych i saw told me i would go to hell... which would be the norm for that area since it was the bible belt. now i live in the hethern non-believers belt and new age belt. (i'm making up my own name for it).

Something else I just remembered.... the psychologist told me after she said she had another lightning strike patient that saw auras that she had another patient who had problems with electronics. Oh and get this ...the psych said whenever she makes an appointment for this lady with the electronics issues that she cannot get the computer to accept that lady's name. She has even tried using the lady's initials, even first initial and tried making up nicknames and she is unable to get the computer to let her type in any of the names for the lady. Now I don't doubt weird things occur like that, but it does seem New Agey for a psychologist to admit to doesn't it?