The idea that either myself or Wade, if we were professional psychotherapists (which I don't believe Wade is and I surely have never claimed to be), would be "slapped with an ethics" charge for discussing theoretical concepts related to personality theory and psychotheraputic modalities only demonstrates the depths of the desperation that animates and drives your participation in these forums as a perennial and relentless critic of the LDS church you claim to be a temple reccomed holding, calling holding, cookie baking, root beer guzzling, sacrement-taking-member-in-good-standing of.
The idea that psychotherapists don't discuss individual's perceived psychlogical issues in public is positively hysterical.
It's not only positively hysterical, it's positively stupid. It's a breech of ethics and if you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that. Credentialed people don't discuss individuals in public.
They do it alll the time, and they do it in books, magazines, and professional journal articles. The names are changed to protect anyonimity, but they do it all the time. Every clinical example or vignette that's ever appeared in a serious text on counseling theory and practice is an example of it.
Your participation and Wade's on this message board more closely resembles a group of friends sitting around gossiping than it does a therapuetic session or professional journal. I prefer to not risk my credentials for the likes of you. I'm sure you will misconstrue that, but that's only your own ego talking. You're just simply not worth the risk to me, Loran.
In any event, as an amateur theorist who charges nothing for any counsel he would ever give a friend, relative, or aquaintance, and as a non-professional who can say anything he want's to anybody he want's anytime he want.s regardless of the theoretical background from which he comes, your ciriticism of both Wade and I is utterly irrelevant.
And you are still not credentialed, and I am. So carry on with your non-professional behavior. It has all the validity of any other non-professional: none.
The very fact that you will not discuss where you received your degree, and within what school of thought or modality your background is psychology is grounded, belies again, that this is just a pose; a game of intellectual one-upsmanship that you play with people with whom you cannot hold our own in the arena of ideas on a fair and open basis.
No, Loran. The reason I won't tell you where I got my degree is because I refuse to give out information that could lead to my being found. I've had some bad experiences with that sort of thing, on other boards, all of which were LDS. And my psychological modality is simply none of your business.
For the record, I''m a newcomer to the theory of CBT, even though I've known about it for sometime, and I've come to this primarily through a continued search for more effective and theoretically sound alternatives to the tradtional 12 step approcah to addiction. My primery theoretical influences, over the last 20 some years, as to psychology, personality theory, and psychotheratupic modalities has been a combination of Abraham Maslow, Family Systems, RET, Glasser's Reality Therapy, and the Bio/Psycho/Social model of addiction, as over against the traditonal disease concept. I'm also intrigued by an eclectic approach that combines different modelities and especially the concept of Brief Therapy. I'm also intrigued by the possibility of importing certain insights and concepts from some eastern philosophies, such as Zen and classical naturalistic Taoism into the process of counseling.
I am also attracted to the most articulate and effective critics of the counseling psychology and mental health field, such as Thomas Szasz and Stanton Peele.
Then I suggest in the course of your study you study ethics. You've obviously missed that important part. I, on the other hand, have the degree, the certificate, and the license.
Get serious Harmony, we might even be able to have a mature, intellectually substantive discussion if you'd quite digging your spurs into that high white horse your on.
Loran
"Get serious"? Did you actually say that? You, the proud owner of a thread on poop? Good heaven's, Loran. Your concept of getting serious is diametrically opposed to mine.