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> No phychotherapy please. I won't go near their arrogance. No professional psychotherapist can afford to be arrogant, you might have gotten unlucky with your
by thejackgoode 5y ago
> No phychotherapy please. I won't go near their arrogance.
No professional psychotherapist can afford to be arrogant, you might have gotten unlucky with your experience so far. They are equipped to answer exactly such questions. Psychodynamic approaches, for example, are something you might want to look into.
- muzani 5y agoYup, arrogance is a symptom of incompetency. People are loudest about the things they are unsure about. We see it all the time in our line of work - beginners are the most arrogant. But it applies to doctors, lawyers, and psychotherapists too.
- Ensorceled 5y agoYes, you will encounter arrogance in all those professions. Just as often a professional will be called "arrogant" for telling us what we don't want to hear. My dad's cardiologist is one of the best doctors I've ever encountered. His online ratings are all over the place and MOST of the low ranking patients were calling him "arrogant" and "terrible bedside manner".
- noduerme 5y agoThere are a lot of great diagnosticians who are lousy human beings. If I need an x-ray I'll see that guy. If I'm going under a scalpel I'd rather have a kid who gives a shit and still values life. The kid's probably more arrogant than the old man, too. But he's got to earn it.
- Ensorceled 5y agoSome of the best surgeons, the ones with the best patient outcomes, are high functioning sociopaths. But that is orthogonal to my point, a lot of doctors, lawyers, etc. are not any more arrogant than the average person; they just get labelled that way because people don't like being told they are wrong or getting bad news.
- noduerme 5y agoI'm not sure those people are wrong to think they're dealing with arrogance. There are lots of ways of delivering bad news. And - unlike in medicine - for every lawyer who delivers bad news, there's another one delivering good news. Coming from a family of lawyers, and growing up knowing dozens of them, I think I've yet to meet one who wasn't extremely arrogant, whatever kind of news they were delivering. And let's not even mention how they order sushi.
- johnmarcus 5y agoAnd let's not forget, it also applies to patients as well.