User:Horacewcrosbyjr

After having refused an open back door to medical school at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina leading to a profession in Psychiatry, in 1974, I decided to learn how to run the Student Affairs part of a university by getting an M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. I got my M.Ed., but during that time I was pursuing a strong minor in Psychology, which I majored in at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. I found out I was more of the teaching and research type than an administrator type, and that I liked working in Psychology more than in Higher Educational Administration. In 1976, my wife and I then moved to Tucson, Arizona, where I was accepted in a PhD program in Tests and Measurements, and Research Methodology. My son died tragically, and my wife wanted to move back to Charleston. While in Charleston, I applied for and was accepted in a program at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in Personality and Counseling Theory, with a minor in Human Development 1978. It was in Gainesville that, due to a genetic defect, I had my first full blown episode of Bipolar Disorder at age 27. Because of the debilitating nature of the disorder, I figured I’d be forced to contribute academically and socially by doing independent writing and research as a physical and social scientist at home. Writing is my nature, and I’ve been doing it for years. With the advent of Blogging, I discovered that not only would I have a place to put my writings on the internet for me and my family, but I would have a chance to discuss them with other folks. Most of the things I have written are related to some major future and contemporary national and/or international issues and topics in a few academic areas. Even though I’m disabled, I’ve still managed to study and write over the last 33 years in various categories, including my favorite; Personality Theories and Therapies, as well as in the areas of Medicine, Energy, Mental Disorders, Politics, and Aging. Every now and again I like to write a poem or a satire. Over the years I’ve written a lot of editorials and op-ed pieces, which can, I suppose, be classified as forms of ‘advocacy publishing’. I guess that means I write sometimes about what I think about this or that, and what, in my opinion, this or that is going to lead to. I’m solution oriented. The way I ‘think outside of the box’ is to take an eclectic approach to understanding and a multidisciplinary approach to suggesting solutions. Horace W. Crosby, Jr.