It is dispiriting watching other people progressing in their careers and meeting life’s milestones such as buying houses and having children – both of which require job security and a good income to do – whilst you linger in low paid jobs for a very long time with no real chance of progression apar...

Over the years I've learned that academic success means nothing in the clinical world, and real respect has to be earned at a personal level in each new job irrespective of your job title or seniority. Amen. I recall one CMHT I was working in, where it was a really charismatic, caring and intellige...

In he teams I have worked in it’s been fairly standard, but applied to a range of professionals. So non-qualified would refer to student nurses, HCAs, APs, medical students, technical instructors, or basically anyone who didn’t have the level of autonomy or accountability that comes with being a ful...

By the by point: In my view Clinical Psychology owes its success and predominance partly to the disillusion that courses are instilling on their graduates that they are expects, know everything, they are the better than all the other applied psychologists, etc, so be mindful of that! In my experien...

In May, the Migration Advisory Committee reviewed the Shortage Occupation List -the jobs where a national shortage is recognised, and therefore priortised for immigration purposes. Interesting, Clinical Psychology is now proposed to be put back onto this list after a decade of being off it. You can ...

My partner doesn't think it is worth my time pursuing this career option. He has argued that it is too competative, takes too long and ultimatly even if I do get through the training and get qualified, working as a part time psychologist would only bring in, what, around 17-18,000 a year at best? I...

I share some of those fears too, especially around the rise of the populist right wing, and the disenfranchised. My view is still that we need to adopt a range of approaches to tackle this, and I think breaking down what is happening does help (me and others) with this. I really like this article th...

Likewise the paradox of tolerance I agree with this, but if I recall correctly Popper does mention that rational arguments are a big part of that shutting down intolerance, and not suppressing intolerant utterings without taking into account the public concensus. However, he does also state that yo...

Do neither of you see the implicit bias and misogyny here? As Miriam pointed out in the other thread, this plays into the 'irrational emotive woman' versus 'cool-headed logical man' trope. So many intelligent, articulate women have made a case against what Peterson has written, but it gets dismisse...

Really thoughtful post Miranda. For me, taking the time to really listen to his rationale (and RESISTING the temptation to immediately get offended) has been a useful exercise. I realised that I didn't actually have much of a rebuttle for - or even really considered - many of his points (i.e. the da...

Thanks for all your comments and critiques. There is a lot to think about, and some very good points about where the responsibility of emotional labour lies. I find myself somewhat conflicted. Ideally, I would like to go through each point raised systematically and address them with my view. However...

Quiz: Are you Jordan B. Peterson? Hey, we all know what the hectic world of clinical psychology is like. Between managing your caseload, having to reschedule supervision for the 3rd time and explaining to NHS managers why you need a room and can't conduct therapy in a car park, it is understandable...

I am a bit disappointed in how this thread developed. I think we could have easily engaged with the points raised by MrO860 on his terms, without needing to no platform based on evidence and systematic dismantling (and to be fair Miriam does go into this). Yet, I can't help think there was an opport...

If you are from a low income family/household, are you more likely to apply to a funded course that pays a salary, or one where you have to pay your fees and work for free? One of the key arguments in trying to prevent the withdrawal of funding for DClinPsy training is that this would disadvantage ...

I want to start by saying you have clearly done a lot, performed and will have picked up several valuable skills. I can also see why you would be frustrated, as I reckon your covering letter would be fairly well recieved in other industries. However, in psychology you are up against a really strong ...