So, I am doing my Masters in Psychology.
What is with this declaration, you wonder? Well, it will become evident in the next few lines.
The other day we were having a class and our professor was trying to decide which movie to show us for the course, and A Beautiful Mind was under consideration.
I believe the protagonist in the movie has schizophrenia (I've heard quite a bit about the movie and it is still on my to-see list... someday soon, hopefully!) and our professor (a PhD in Psychology) describes schizophrenia to the class as, "It is a severe mental disorder... of a very high order... (and some more such words later) you can take pills and get cured like the protagonist did in the movie."
A PhD in Psychology describing schizophrenia in these terms to a second year MA Psychology class... did not know whether to cry or laugh.
For the uninitiated: we study schizophrenia symptoms in much greater detail at graduation level so we KNOW HOW it is a severe mental disorder of the highest order in much complexity than he tried to describe it to us.
And NO it DOES NOT get cured. You can only manage the symptoms through drug therapy. I did not do Clinical Psychology and even I know this.
Hence the question, 'To Laugh or To Cry?'
What is with this declaration, you wonder? Well, it will become evident in the next few lines.
The other day we were having a class and our professor was trying to decide which movie to show us for the course, and A Beautiful Mind was under consideration.
I believe the protagonist in the movie has schizophrenia (I've heard quite a bit about the movie and it is still on my to-see list... someday soon, hopefully!) and our professor (a PhD in Psychology) describes schizophrenia to the class as, "It is a severe mental disorder... of a very high order... (and some more such words later) you can take pills and get cured like the protagonist did in the movie."
A PhD in Psychology describing schizophrenia in these terms to a second year MA Psychology class... did not know whether to cry or laugh.
For the uninitiated: we study schizophrenia symptoms in much greater detail at graduation level so we KNOW HOW it is a severe mental disorder of the highest order in much complexity than he tried to describe it to us.
And NO it DOES NOT get cured. You can only manage the symptoms through drug therapy. I did not do Clinical Psychology and even I know this.
Hence the question, 'To Laugh or To Cry?'
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