Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 30, 2018

This SCP Student Blog post by Adam Duberstein discusses the role of emotional support animals in clinical psychology. Within days after receiving my master’s-level license to practice psychotherapy in Michigan, two acquaintances asked me to write them letters which they could use in order to obtain an emotional support animal (ESA).

Psychology 52

Psychology Schizophrenia Therapist Disability 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. Clearly my husband wasn’t.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled.

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52