Comments on: Animated psychiatry

By: Monday Catch-Up - Manon Eileen - a Writer's Blog

Monday Catch-Up - Manon Eileen - a Writer's Blog — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:02:47 +0000

[...] Animated psychiatry @ Youtube – I thought this was really cute until they stereotyped, belittled and disregarded us psychologists [...]

By: T.Waage

T.Waage — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:35:09 +0000

I applaud the effort to try to de-stigmatize psychiatric pasients. However, this short film unfortunately showcases the ignorance many psychiatrists have towards other mental health professions. I have also studied for 6 years to become a clinical psychologist. I didn’t have to “examine testicles” to do so, thank god, I was able to focus on more relevant topics for my future profession. While working in a psychiatric ward as a student I was shocked to see the incompetence of the doctors straight out of med school starint out on their specialization as psychiatrists. Many a time I, or one of my collegues, had to intervene on the pasients behalf. It’s sad to see an otherwise informative and charming film undermining itself by projecting onto psychologists the exact same prejudices that the filmmaker wishes to eradicate about psychiatry. While psychiatry as a medical specialty have vast recruitment problems, the same is not true about clinical psychology. Failing to recognize the expertise psychologists have will eventually marginalize psychiatrists out of mental health professions, and shows doctor’s lacking will to interdisciplinary cooperation which is so important in our field of work.

By: Mind Hacks and Medical Foibles « The VisionHelp Blog

Mind Hacks and Medical Foibles « The VisionHelp Blog — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:06:18 +0000

[...] both. The books’ authors, Tom Stafford and Matt Webb also have a great blog and their piece yesterday caught my eye. The video they cite, Animated Psychiatry, touches on some of the discussions [...]