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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 182246" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Welcome all newbies! If/when you can, do a sig. Now you've finally overcome the hurdle about putting in a post! A sig helps us stay in touch with what brings you here and what you're dealing with.</p><p></p><p>Attitudes to psychology - I DO understand. We're fighting that one with MILL these days. It's at least partly a generational thing - mother in law is a retired nurse and her past experience, back in the days when she did her training, was that psychology was little more than pseudo-medical mumbo jumbo. I've been trying to talk to her about the various psychologists my kids have been seeing, and she has been very concerned that we're being led astray, or the kids aren't getting the help they need.</p><p></p><p>I also discovered - she doesn't distinguish between psychology and psychiatry, to her they're ALL bad and quackery. So I explained that psychology AND psychiatry have both come a long way and now are an important facet to holistic medicine and multi-disciplinary treatment. I also described CBT for her to help her understand. "But that's just logical!" she replied. </p><p>"Not to a lot of people," I told her. "And sometimes a trained impartial observer can help much more than someone too close and too involved."</p><p></p><p>A few times I've taken myself off to see either a psychologist or psychiatrist, I had to keep my in-laws out of the picture, because they would have been very unhappy about it. We had a few nasty occurrences in psychiatric medicine in the 60s and 70s, which only made it worse - a Sydney psychiatrist set up a "deep sleep" clinic which he used to keep patients sedated for weeks sometimes, often applying ECT while under sedation. People died. Some wished they had. The doctor responsible suicided partway through the investigation. mother in law helped treat some of the survivors.</p><p></p><p>That said, if you have a really good psychologist or psychiatrist, they can really help. They can also be a necessary part of the assessment process. So if he really hates the idea, he still needs to accept that at least for diagnosis, they are a necessary hoop to jump through.</p><p></p><p>A book we often recommend here is "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. Just keep quiet that he's qualified in psychology! The book can really help.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 182246, member: 1991"] Welcome all newbies! If/when you can, do a sig. Now you've finally overcome the hurdle about putting in a post! A sig helps us stay in touch with what brings you here and what you're dealing with. Attitudes to psychology - I DO understand. We're fighting that one with MILL these days. It's at least partly a generational thing - mother in law is a retired nurse and her past experience, back in the days when she did her training, was that psychology was little more than pseudo-medical mumbo jumbo. I've been trying to talk to her about the various psychologists my kids have been seeing, and she has been very concerned that we're being led astray, or the kids aren't getting the help they need. I also discovered - she doesn't distinguish between psychology and psychiatry, to her they're ALL bad and quackery. So I explained that psychology AND psychiatry have both come a long way and now are an important facet to holistic medicine and multi-disciplinary treatment. I also described CBT for her to help her understand. "But that's just logical!" she replied. "Not to a lot of people," I told her. "And sometimes a trained impartial observer can help much more than someone too close and too involved." A few times I've taken myself off to see either a psychologist or psychiatrist, I had to keep my in-laws out of the picture, because they would have been very unhappy about it. We had a few nasty occurrences in psychiatric medicine in the 60s and 70s, which only made it worse - a Sydney psychiatrist set up a "deep sleep" clinic which he used to keep patients sedated for weeks sometimes, often applying ECT while under sedation. People died. Some wished they had. The doctor responsible suicided partway through the investigation. mother in law helped treat some of the survivors. That said, if you have a really good psychologist or psychiatrist, they can really help. They can also be a necessary part of the assessment process. So if he really hates the idea, he still needs to accept that at least for diagnosis, they are a necessary hoop to jump through. A book we often recommend here is "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. Just keep quiet that he's qualified in psychology! The book can really help. Marg [/QUOTE]
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