Miata Mailing List: February 1999, Message #69

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On 2/1/99 11:51, Dan Scolnick dans@validigm.com wrote:

>I've
>never dealt with psychiatrists, but the thought is frightening (and makes
>me paranoid!).

I worked for 10 years for a research institute located at a large state 
mental hospital, and I never met a psychiatrist who wasn't crazy--I mean 
actually psychotic. I used to have a neighbor who was a new M.D. from 
India, looking for a hospital residency in the USA; the only ones he 
could find were in psychiatry, which he refused because it was widely 
believed *by medical students* that if one weren't crazy already, 
becoming a pshrynk would clinch the deal. Psychologists, OTOH, are all 
merely neurotic--every one I ever met entered the field as a self-help 
move. At least the Ph.D.s were up-front about it--the M.D.s thought, 
pathetically, that they were gods.

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C

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