The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

Product Information

If you think you can only do this job by having a perfectly rounded acceptance of all the shit in your life and also a complete understanding of the pain of your patients before you can help them with theirs, then dream on I understand that psychology is not an exact science (I have studied it myself and have friends who are psychologists) - but I think this book has hardly anything to do with how a clinical psychologist is 'made'. I also did not mention that random girl's night scene where they try out different outfits on her for the funeral she was attending. Was the point of the scene to show how valuable her friendship support was and reflect on how she impacts other's lives because she talked to them to face death and plan out their own funerals, just as the gay people did in her attachment? I first became fascinated by the frontal lobes of the human brain when I saw my grandmother’s sprayed across the skirting board of her dark and cluttered house. I was fifteen. Ondanks dat het misschien niet altijd gemakkelijk voor me was om dit boek te lezen kan ik toch zeggen dat ik content ben met het feit dat ik het boek gelezen heb. Het heeft me weer een inzicht gegeven op verschillende vlakken. Bijvoorbeeld hoe confronterend de opleiding tot klinisch psycholoog kan zijn, wat het doet met degene die de opleiding volgt maar ook hoe patiënten geholpen kunnen worden als de juiste klik er is of juist niet als die mist. Tenslotte is iedereen mens maar zijn de hulpvragen divers net als de uitkomsten.

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

A gruesome family death set Tanya Byron on the path to becoming a child psychologist, a journey she describes in her new book. Het boek is een aanrader voor iedere lezer die een kijk wil in de gespecificeerde hulpverleners wereld van een klinisch psycholoog en dan met name gericht op onderwerpen die hopelijk ver van je af staan of zomaar ineens dichterbij kunnen zijn dan je denkt. Geen zware droge kost maar wel een boeiend, aangrijpend, goed geschreven, bijzonder relaas van een vakvrouw.Asphyxiation: that was the problem, of course. If only she’d died instantly from the head trauma, the crime would have been treated as murder. If only she hadn’t been a stubborn, wilful woman – a woman who had fled Nazi Germany pregnant with my father, a woman who had lost many of her family in concentration camps, a woman who never took anything lying down, except when she was beaten with an iron fire poker.

A skeleton in the/ cupboard - Idioms by The Free Dictionary A skeleton in the/ cupboard - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Last year, while writing The Skeleton Cupboard, a memoir of her early years training as a clinical psychologist from 1989 to 1992, she asked them of herself. Everyone is touched by mental health and raising the awareness is important. I found the frank interactions with the supervisor to be insightful. Mistake number one: they don’t have to cry in the first session for you to be doing your job well. Leave that to the counsellors. I gobbled up this book - very easy to read. The chapters could be read as stand alone or sequentially. I would recommend it to others as it is both informative and thought provoking.Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictable and often frightening. Ik vind het niet prettig om deel uit te maken van een maatschappij die er geen moeite mee heeft om mensen af te schrijven, alleen maar omdat ze hun kwetsbaarheid laten zien op een manier die wij niet zo makkelijk kunnen accepteren, begrijpen en tolereren.”

The Skeleton Cupboard - University College Oxford

When I have a stronger stomach I would like to finish this, not for the tragic stories but for the way the system works and Most Importantly an insight and understanding into a world that is pushed under the covers.Oh, it was terrible,’ she recalls. ‘The press were hanging around because he was a well-known television director. At 15, you are meant to be: “Yay, I’m going to change the world” and instead there I was looking at this mass of blood.’ It also helps that this book is extremely well written and I’m sure Tanya could make money as a writer if she ever decided to leave the medical field (I pray she doesn’t!) I understand that Tanya Byron wrote this book from the point of view of her 22-year-old self, but she comes across as arrogant and unlikeable. If I knew nothing about psychotherapy prior to reading this book, I would be terrified to accept treatment from a mental health trainee. As a clinical psychology student myself, there are a few things I feel I must point out.

The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

Tanya Byron was just twenty two when, after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of York, she moved to London to begin training as a clinical psychologist. For three years, Byron divided her time between studying at the University College London while completing a series of six month clinical placements in various settings within the National Health Service. The Skeleton Cupboard, subtitled 'The making of a clinical psychologist', is a fascinating account of the challenges and triumphs Byron faced during that period. There is a scene where the author went to her gay bar with "her gals/girls". They progressively get rekted and all go home until she is alone. It is then she happens to see her strict and cold mentor, Chris, passing the cooties to Anne, her current clinical attachment supervisor. This is significant because when Chris first brought the author to Anne for introductions and orientation, the two of them were extremely passive aggressive, savage and were retorting at each other the entire time.The Skeleton Cupboard is much more than just a collection of case studies though. As Byron recounts her interactions with patients she also reveals her personal struggles as a somewhat naive and inexperienced young woman expected to treat patients presenting with a wide range of mental health issues. Byron admits that she often felt out of her depth, anxious about her treatment plans and her ability to help those in her care. Her own 'stuff', including the murder of her grandmother, occasionally interfered with her judgement and Byron sometimes found it difficult to let go of a patient when it was time to move on. I really liked Byron's honest revelations of her own failings and the difficulties she had in developing the skills needed to become a practitioner.