This quote makes it one step backwards: “If you tell me you know something in your gut, I say that’s hard data,” said Dr. Miller,
I call on clinical folks to inform me whether the Columbia program is generally well-respected. What I wonder is this, if it is well-respected then what does this say about the state of clinical training? Sigh. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Another step forward / backward for Clinical Psychology Training? From: "Jim Clark" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:06:45 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 Hi A NY Times article on Columbia's clinical psychology program and its addition of spirituality (mysticism?) to training. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/education/columbia-program-merges-therapy-and-spirituality.html?pagewanted=1&src=recg I especially noted the following for several points: --------------------------------------------- Lisa J. Miller, the professor who leads the concentration, said she was training *spiritual psychologists,* who put nonmaterial concepts like love and connection at the core of their efforts to heal. *If you tell me you know something in your gut, I say that*s hard data,* said Dr. Miller, who co-hosted a cable television series on psychic children in 2008. Science, like intuition, she said, is *another arrow in our quiver.* --------------------------------------------- One is emphasis on intuition as "hard data" and the other is the link in this person's background to "psychic children." And what sort of psychologist thinks that "love and connection" are elements that have been ignored by either academic or clinical psychologists, necessitating the introduction of mysticism to take into account such "nonmaterial concepts"? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology and Chair 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19654 or send a blank email to leave-19654-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
