Any psychologists around....

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I met a psychologist recently who behaved very judgementally towards me and was very rude on first meeting with a friend. I can only assume they have been given a less than attractive impression of me based upon a family disagreement.

Aibu to feel that irrespective of information you have been given, common courtesy and manners should prevail but aibu in thinking that a qualified clinical psychologist should be less judgemental based upon their profession?

People from all professions can be twats.
HTH.

Should be completely impartial - professional benchmark not to judge or convey judgement.

Did you meet them in the context of being treated by them? If so YANBU. If it was just a social meeting then I don’t think they owe you any professional obligation of courtesy etc (although they do sound like a twat).

Maybe they can separate work from home life effectively? Maybe you caught them on a bad day?
I would hate to think I was being judged solely on my profession and somehow had to always behave as if I was at work.

Thanks for the replies, for context it was a social setting. I could have confronted or challenged them but potentially this would have caused drama as they were neither discreet as they deliberately sought me out (but ignored me) and were openly rude to my friend.

If they weren’t seeing you in a professional capacity then I think it’s fairly irrelevant what their profession is.
In what way we’re they judgemental and rude?

YABU if you think someone's profession should make someone more/less likely to like you/be polite to you. It doesn't make them poor at their job if this is within a social setting.

As we don't know what was said, or the back story there could be a legitimate reason behind the frosty/rude attitude. Or they could be an arse generally. But there's no grounds for complaining about them (if that's what you're asking) or judging them on their ability to do their job on the basis of a social interaction.

No I wouldn't complain about them. Life is too short!

I heard them asking which one I was even though we had never met or had reason to meet previously, so presumably this was pure curiosity on their part. With friend, following basic introductions they said to friend "so you are xXxX , yes we have heard all about you"

Ah I see. They're not YOUR psychologist - rather a psychologist unacquainted with you and they approached you and your friend uninvited?

Are they actually a clinical psychologist? Increasingly people describe themselves as psychologists when they are simply a psychology graduate. But in any case the selection process for clin psych does not extensively assess suitabilty and psychologists can be knobs as much as the next person.

I work with a lot of psychologists, I think they can be quite forward and blunt. The job creates that in them imo.

For me this was an educated person in a social setting who made me feel very uncomfortable. Personally, I wouldn't have behaved the same way as i believe that every disagreement has more than one perspective, I could upset someone with a mental health issue and it could lead to conflict and drama which would spoil the social occasion. But that's just me!

Ikbloo absolutely. Yes, bluntness was in operation! Its a good job we are not all the same thanks for all the responses x

In that case I'd say they were probably just a knob in general and it's unrelated to their job. Try to forget about them and hope you don't bump into them again.

None of that sounds particularly rude to me.