The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

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As discussed above, I think the author went a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitle overboard with the "in-the-perspective-of-my-younger-self" thing.

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Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares remarkable stories inspired by the people she had the privilege to treat. When I thought about how I felt about mental health, it felt pertinent to say how inept and anxious I had been at times. OK, to be honest, I am not entirely sure that my grandmother’s brains were on the skirting board when I went into her house that day at the age of fifteen.I found The Skeleton Cupboard to be a fascinating read, sharing valuable insight into the difficult role of a clinical psychologist, and the lives of those people in need of their help.

The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

All these questions about the shit end of life, at a time when I should have been unthinkingly hedonistic. For 25 years, psychologist Prof Tanya Byron has been asking these questions of her patients to help them ‘make that journey from chaos to clarity’. Op een privéschool voor alleen meisjes zitten is de beste manier om de sport van de eetstoornis perfect onder de knie te krijgen, en tegen de tijd dat ik veertien was, was een aantal van mijn vriendinnen goed voor olympisch goud’. Imogen who at twelve has seen more of the evil side of human nature than many will see in a lifetime. He was supported by his wife, Saira, also Jewish, a survivor of Mathausen concentration camp (her three sisters had been killed in front of her) and she had her own issues including infertility, camp doctors having experimented on her body.

Harold – highly educated, who survived the horrors of the concentration camps only to slide into dementia in later life. After completing my BSc in psychology at the University of York, in the north of England, I had moved back to live in a flat in London, the city in which I grew up. Though she did not acknowledge it until later, today she ‘is clear that my grandmother’s death was the catalyst to my becoming really fascinated in human behaviour and wanting to know why it is that we do what we do’. The author discusses how she administered an entire neuropsychological battery without ever reviewing the measures with a supervisor. But the main issue I had was with the disrespectful way the author spoke about some of the people she worked with.

The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

I’ve scanned over the reviews on this book, I can’t really see the reasoning behind the negative reviews. The stories were relatively engaging, and I was curious about their backstories and what would ensue. That quickly died on reading just the very first chapter: she refers to trans people as “boys who want to be girls” and “ladyboys”, and remarks on that stupid cliché that oh, these men are prettier than her. But she redeems herself with her second, a suicidal preteen who she saves from jumping into, as she puts it, 'the deep blue sea sea sea'. Ik leerde de vaste klanten van de drugskliniek beter kennen en genoot van het geklets in de wachtruimte; het is vreemd hoe ook zo’n helse plek al snel vertrouwd en bijna normaal kan aanvoelen.Ook heden ten dage zijn de onderwerpen uit dit boek nog altijd van groot maatschappelijk belang zei het wellicht wat sommige dingen betreft op een andere manier.

The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

Door mijn eigen levenservaring lees ik zo af en toe graag boeken die gaan over psychologie en onderwerpen die daar in directe zin mee te maken hebben. Despite this uncertainty, I thought the book illuminated what a young and inexperienced psychologist might find when in some tricky clinical encounters. My sister, Katrina, only fifteen months younger than me, and I grew up surrounded by art and culture – which I loved – and went to a highly academic all-girls school – which I hated. In the introduction the people whose cases are described in the book are revealed to be 'constructs which is just a fancy way of admitting they are 'fictional', as the epilogue describes them.A journalist, author and lecturer, her books include The Skeleton Cupboard and The House of Tiny Tearaways. I wouldn't dream of saying "Fuck you" to even my least favorite supervisor, much less engaging in romantic behvaior with a collague at a training site. I am going to start at the beginning and tell the stories of my training as a well-meaning but inexperienced young woman.