Dr. NiteKrawler

Well, not yet. But I'm on my way! I just recently got my Associate's Degree. Just figured I would let everyone know! I will be going on until I get either a Phd or a Psyd in psychology.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Well, not yet. But I'm on my way! I just recently got my Associate's Degree. Just figured I would let everyone know! I will be going on until I get either a Phd or a Psyd in psychology.

Awesome. I took Psychology in high school. It was interesting....simple...we had just taken a bunch of notes really. It was interesting stuff though.

Psychology really isn't as hard as most people make it out to be. I think I kind of have a mind for it. I think most people just don't find it interesting, so they do poorly.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Psychology really isn't as hard as most people make it out to be. I think I kind of have a mind for it. I think most people just don't find it interesting, so they do poorly.

That's basically how it works. When it is something you are interested in, it is so simple to listen up and be interested. If it isn't though, the learning experience becomes a task. If there was an RE class, that would be a breeze.

If there was an RE class, we'd be teaching it.

NiteKrawler wrote:

If there was an RE class, we'd be teaching it.

No doubt. Mr. Spike & Mr. NiteKrawler, or as Jamesy might say, Mister Night Crawler

Congrats nite even though im not sure what it is you achieved as im not high into the technical stuff if you know what i mean.

Congrats Nite and good luck with further studies!

Thanks all. @Barber: Here in the US, two years of college gets you an associate's degree. Can't do much with it. 4 years is a bachelor's degree. 6 is usually for a master's and it takes anywhere from 7-10 (sometimes longer) to get a doctorate degree. In psychology, you really can't do anything until you have a master's, but I want to go on to a doctorate so I can treat mental disorders like depression and schizophrenia.

I can already see you treating the mentally ill... Meanwhile, hanging on these forums is a good start.

You're gonna grow a big beard, right?

NiteKrawler wrote:

Thanks all. @Barber: Here in the US, two years of college gets you an associate's degree. Can't do much with it. 4 years is a bachelor's degree. 6 is usually for a master's and it takes anywhere from 7-10 (sometimes longer) to get a doctorate degree. In psychology, you really can't do anything until you have a master's, but I want to go on to a doctorate so I can treat mental disorders like depression and schizophrenia.

Nice,good luck with it all.

Mass Distraction wrote:

You're gonna grow a big beard, right?

I'm not Freud. I highly disagree with most of his ideals.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

You're gonna grow a big beard, right?

I'm not Freud. I highly disagree with most of his ideals.

I never said you were. I just wanted you to grow a sweet beard.

I know. I just figured you were referring to him because he is the only mainstream psychologist to have facial hair. And no...I hate having facial hair. It's itchy itchy scott came ugly face so killed him. Anyway... I do look good with stubble though.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

You're gonna grow a big beard, right?

I'm not Freud. I highly disagree with most of his ideals.

I actually found him very agreeable. A good thinker he is.

Spike991 wrote:

I actually found him very agreeable. A good thinker he is.

Too bad all of his thinking basically got us nowhere. The only idea of his I like is the id, ego, superego idea. Everything else is pure crap and it shows in practical therapy.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Spike991 wrote:

I actually found him very agreeable. A good thinker he is.

Too bad all of his thinking basically got us nowhere. The only idea of his I like is the id, ego, superego idea. Everything else is pure crap and it shows in practical therapy.

Honestly it's been a couple of years since I read up on him, out of interest that is, so I need to go back and check out his stuff again, but I remember thinking fondly of him.

My personal opinion of him is that he was kind of a pervert. With all of his ideals based on sexuality and the fact that almost all of his clients were depressed, neglected housewives kind of says that.

NiteKrawler wrote:

My personal opinion of him is that he was kind of a pervert. With all of his ideals based on sexuality and the fact that almost all of his clients were depressed, neglected housewives kind of says that.

That might not be too far from the truth.

its true, Freud may have been a bit of a perve, but he did give the world the process of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s so that counts for quite a bit. a lot of his techniques are still used to this day in clinical and counseling psychology... ive taken a few years of psych... and btw, wilhelm wundt started it all, and he had a bitchin' beard!

Yes indeed, old Wilhelm! V-V-V-VVVVilhelmmmm!!!!! I love his name lol. Grandfather of psychology. And while Freud's crap is still used today, it has pitiful results generally. Especially compared to the cognitive and behavioral theories. The psychodynamic approach is old and weathered. I compare it to religion. It's old as hell, widely practiced, and full of absolute bullshit.

haha i was raised in a humanistic fashion, so i usually apply that to about everything. i would agree with you though, as to the religion comparison

Wow!!! :D Your awesome sauce!

I want to be a surgeon or a midwife

NiteKrawler wrote:

Yes indeed, old Wilhelm! V-V-V-VVVVilhelmmmm!!!!! I love his name lol. Grandfather of psychology. And while Freud's crap is still used today, it has pitiful results generally. Especially compared to the cognitive and behavioral theories. The psychodynamic approach is old and weathered. I compare it to religion. It's old as hell, widely practiced, and full of absolute bullshit.

Vilhelm.

You got to love that German alphabet, Wunderbar.

Reede1991 wrote:

haha i was raised in a humanistic fashion, so i usually apply that to about everything. i would agree with you though, as to the religion comparison

I don't look much in the humanistic/existential or sociological theories. Maybe once they have more solid research.