I have 2 doctorates in psychology

[Psy]

Ask me anything about psychology

I worked in admin for a company of occupational psychologists once - very interesting and enjoyable job, but most of the psychologists were a bit crazy and a few were, I think, certifiably bonkers (not using medical terms here, btw!!). Do you think that people with psychological issues are more drawn to study and then work in that profession, so then it ends up with a higher proportion of people with psychological issues than would be the norm in most areas of work?

You get people in the German-speaking world called things like Frau Dr Dr x or Herr Prof Dr y.

First of all, congratulations on two PhDs! You must have put in a lot of hard work.

My goal is to go into research/theoretical psychology. I have a MSc conversion psych degree (and a completely unrelated undergrad because 18-year-old me had no idea what I was doing). Do you think I could do anything with this? Will PhD programmes accept Merit and not Distinction? Additionally, is there much interest in psychology and linguistics?

Sorry to bombard you with questions!

Also slightly embarrassing question - what age are most people on Psychology PhD programmes?

Alice Evans. Mad or bad (or both)?
@Psy

Psychiatrists are doctors who have completed medical school, two years of foundation training and 6-8 years of core/specialist training in psychiatry afterwards. They will always be medical doctors, so not sure where you heard this is changing.

I’m completing an MSc conversion just now, with a view to applying for DEdPsy.

I wonder if you have thoughts around:

(a) autistic girls/women being misdiagnosed with a PD

(b) autism manifesting as ‘trans’ or gender-diverse?

What@SophiaElise said

Ha ha!

My FIL was Herr Professor Doktor Surname.

We used to call him Herr Professor Doktor Papa Surname.

Is that one doctorate for each hemisphere of your brain? How do you get a hat to fit you?

We call my friend's German husband 'Dipling' behind his back.

Why behind his back?

Because it would be tedious to explain.

I used to think this too. But now I've met more people outside psychology, I wonder if it's more that people who study psychology feel that their insanity is a cute and interesting personality feature, whereas other people hide it more.

I remember one day, a student came to class upset, and everyone was thrilled. There was a sort of unseemly hussle to get a good active listening position and ask open questions. It's more people like that, maybe, than other styles of crazy.

What am I thinking?

I think the psychology of language is a massive area, and that linguistics and psychology go well together. That's my impression from the outside, anyway.

I think if you have a masters, it doesn't matter what your marks are, you can get into a PhD, but I'm not sure. Getting into a PhD program is usually not hard because universities make money from PhD students.

My advice would be think very carefully before starting a PhD. Make sure you pick a good supervisor, that's the most important thing.

Usually in their 20s, but there are also people in their 30s, 40s and older. Age doesn't seem like a big issue. People coming from other fields or with life experience are generally valued, I think.

I'm sure you're right. I don't know about psychiatry. It's just something I heard, but probably misunderstood.

This is very worrying that you are giving out completely wrong information.
As you have said you have no clinical experience as a psychologist perhaps you are not best to offer anything other than a lay persons perspective. Also you intro as having two PHD is somewhat misleading to to people who will not realise it’s simply a reappear of the same one.

If you were about to start studying for an initial degree again, which course and Uni would you recommend please?

I have reported this thread due to the inconsistencies and misinformation. If op is really a psychologist then not a very good one

Autism is such a broad category at the moment This isn't my field, and I know people have pretty strong views about this, but all those categories are just descriptions of behaviour. The idea of autism "manifesting" supposes that it's some kind of underlying - I'm not sure what - energy, disorder? When really it's all manifestation, in the sense that if there was no pattern of behaviour there would be no autism, if you see what I mean. The same for personality disorders. So I suppose there's this idea of misdiagnosis as if it's possible to identify the "true" underlying energy/disorder. But is it possible? Maybe it's more about which diagnoses are helpful for the individual (?)

But yes, there's a lot to be said about who gets diagnosed with what and why. And what would be best? I don't know. What do you think?

I've read that there's a connection between autism and gender expression, but I haven't looked into it.

You're wondering what you're thinking?

If you are not a clinical psychologist how can your opinion about this mean any more than the average lay person.
I worked with clinical psychologists. They were usually very careful about any opinions they gave and it would be based on research and facts. This sounds like you know little about diagnostic processes in mental health. The psychologists I knew would not make judgements on systems unless very certain that they were very well informed on the subject .
A PHD is also a postgraduate qualification. It doesn’t lapse in the way a registration to an official body does .

Sorry, I never even heard of her before. She looks glamorous anyway.