September 2010
S M T W T F S
« May    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627282930  

Inherent Dangers of the Job

I’m going to try really hard to keep this from being a post about how seriously bad ass I am.

Really hard.

In the words of Britney: You Drive Me Craaaazy

I wrestled with presenting this story for two reasons:

1) I have not yet written the blog post I mentioned I would be posting.

and..

2) it’s all about boundaries AGAIN!

But then I had a growth moment and realized that if you’re working child and adolescent psych and there are no boundary issues with a patient, that child [...]

Find out what it means to me!

So one of the things I’m really excited about in starting my own business is how I won’t be forced (I know I will to some extent) to work with people for whom I have no respect. I could choose not to work with those people within private practice; I’d just be out money.

Boundaries

A common issue in psychiatry is boundaries. Most of our patients either have none, or over do it. Each patient is different, so there isn’t really a set of diagnoses who adhere to one extreme or the other, although there are some trends.

The kids that tend to hang out with us the longest, however, have [...]

Threats on your life

Part of working in psychiatry is the inevitable toll it will take on yourself. Transference, counter transference, not to mention all of our own defense mechanisms being thrown at us one by one. And not even beginning to touch on the truth coming from the mouths of babes on harsher tongues than our own.
The other [...]

Balls of Doom

So my kids have resumed being hilarious.

“I’ll put it on my balls and you can come and get it”

Lyric Analysis

So I was going to wait until next week to post this, but the Gods of Stumble Upon made me nearly fall off of my stool with laughter by showing me the best lyric analysis I’ve ever seen in my life.  So I’m going to discuss my thoughts on lyric analysis and hopefully remember to [...]