User:UnholyGhost

I have a PsyD from an APA-accredited program and am pursuing (literally) a meaningful postdoctoral fellowship. I have two master's degrees in experimental psychology (experimental psychopathology and social-cognitive social psychology) from two major universities, one public Ivy (per current ratings) and one Ivy, and I am a Phi Beta Kappa Honours graduate from a public Ivy. While pursuing my various degrees, I've worked and conducted research (that's work too) at two top-10 hospitals. I named myself UnHoly Ghost in deference to Nell Casey's excellent, IMHO, collection of essays by writers (real ones) on major depression. Why? Because I find the status-quo of clinical psychology depressing. Fortunately, it has not pushed me over the edge into that dreadfully painful Axis I inferno. But it saddens me greatly.

My Sincere Wishes, toward which I am Lobbying when not Rummaging for Food and other Basic Necessities (cf. Maslow):

a. Termination of the fratricidal denigration of PhDs by PsyDs and PsyDs by PhDs. b. Winning the territorial battle against inadequately trained midlevel "psychotherapists" which, operationally, would mean that we'd once again be preferred by healthcare orgs as psychotherapy (evidence-based, too!) providers. c. Assisting our fellow doctoral-level providers in other professions in particular w/understanding the value of our services. The growth of behavioural medicine is one indication that we're moving slowly in that direction. d. Putting effective pressure on our states to follow the APA's conclusions and strike the postdoc requirement from the books. e. Lobbying to increase our salaries: NPs make better money than us, and we train about as long as those poverty-stricken neurosurgeons. NPs, as we know, are midlevel providers and their training takes a couple of years post-RN. f. Putting an end to most states' practice to remunerate psychologists at about 1/3 the rate bequethed to psychiatrists.

More to come. I'm tired.