I don't usually participate in friending memes, because I'm not generally looking for more friends just to have more friends, and also because it feels a big gauche for me to do so? What with me blogging on DW professionally.
But I thought I'd introduce myself, for people who have seen me around here commenting. I'm a psychotherapist. More specifically, I'm what's called a clinical mental health counselor. I am a medical professional, and not a scientist. However, I am a consumer of medical research, a critic of medical research, and on occasion have professionally consulted to research projects in a variety of domains. Also, a very, very long time ago, I went to college to become a scientist, but then transferred into engineering, then dropped out of school to program computers for a living for about a decade.
I have a passionate interest in the history and anthropology of everythingWestern societyall professional fields medicine, particularly psychiatry and mental health. I am also Full Of Thoughts And Feels about psychiatric nosology, and maybe all nosology.
I have a specialty in the history of homosexuality as a psychiatric pathology.
I am very political and often rant about the intersections of social justice, mental health, public policy, and healthcare. My healthcare tag is a good place to see some of that.
Also of potential interests to biologists: (1) I would also like to get around to posting more about climate change, but that's both not in my lane and something that will have to wait until I have a few more spoons. (2) I am more critical of biological engineering than I have gotten around to explaining, and may at some point post about that.
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Date: 2019-02-08 10:22 pm (UTC)But I thought I'd introduce myself, for people who have seen me around here commenting. I'm a psychotherapist. More specifically, I'm what's called a clinical mental health counselor. I am a medical professional, and not a scientist. However, I am a consumer of medical research, a critic of medical research, and on occasion have professionally consulted to research projects in a variety of domains. Also, a very, very long time ago, I went to college to become a scientist, but then transferred into engineering, then dropped out of school to program computers for a living for about a decade.
I have a passionate interest in the history and anthropology of
everythingWestern societyall professional fieldsmedicine, particularly psychiatry and mental health. I am also Full Of Thoughts And Feels about psychiatric nosology, and maybe all nosology.I have a specialty in the history of homosexuality as a psychiatric pathology.
I am very political and often rant about the intersections of social justice, mental health, public policy, and healthcare. My healthcare tag is a good place to see some of that.
Also of potential interests to biologists: (1) I would also like to get around to posting more about climate change, but that's both not in my lane and something that will have to wait until I have a few more spoons. (2) I am more critical of biological engineering than I have gotten around to explaining, and may at some point post about that.