I just LOVE american psychiatrists (but do hate french ones errr!)

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#1

uglyvan

Mar 22, 2010 3:07:37
America: freeness on expressive moves;

American psychiatrists are the actual guardians of America's people sanity; when you violate federal law there is immediately some of an inquirer who will help you regain reason; first he warns you that you are on the fall; then you gotta stop you from what my poor english graduation tells me it is "falling from a even higher cliff".

French psychiatrists, well euh... there are good and bad ones...
good ones are called expert psychiatrists; fortunately I have met some.
#2

toastedamphibian

Mar 22, 2010 21:01:02
Does anyone have any idea what this gent is trying to say?
#3

Shiftkitty

Mar 22, 2010 22:00:55
I think what he's saying is that American psychiatry is aimed at helping a person identify what the problem and then finding a solution or at least a workaround, using input from the individual.

I don't know what French shrinks are like.
#4

pigknight

Mar 22, 2010 22:25:28
I think he needs an American Psychiatrist.


Zing!
#5

MechaPilot

Mar 22, 2010 22:27:22
Of course American psychiatrists are the best.  No other nation on the face of the earth could produce a Doctor Hannibal Lecter.
#6

EscherEnigma

Mar 22, 2010 22:31:38
Since America does have Paul Cameron, I'm not sure I can feel too great about the state of psychiatry/psychology in the USA.  I mean, sure, the guy's been denounced by the APA, but his work still gets used and referred to an awful lot.
#7

toastedamphibian

Mar 22, 2010 22:51:49
I think he needs an American Psychiatrist.


Zing!



Poor English-as-second-langauge skills = raving lunatic

I find that offensive and unfunny. It's not even like I have some strange belife that offensive and funny cannot coincide (as anyone who has read many of my posts can probably verify). This is just not funny, and needlessly cruel while being absurd in a cliched way, if that makes sense.

Bad taste and a poor attempt at humor.

A tutor or translator, perhaps, but a Psychiatrist?
#8

Shiftkitty

Mar 23, 2010 8:56:49
Every society has it's good and bad psychs. I did ask a friend with experience, however, and she told me that the approach to psychiatry in France is similar to the approach of an auto mechanic. "You're experiencing symptom X? Then your problem is diagnosis Y. You need to do Z to fix it." The human psyche just doesn't work that way. No matter what they told us when we were little snotlings, we are not all the same on the inside save for in very general terms.
#9

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 9:36:11
True.

But can you blame any modern french psychiatrist for spawning a "movement" that racks in the dough by telling a rather unhappy minority that they can fix themselves if they fork over a lot of cash and allow themselves to be brainwashed, while also going around to various African nations and telling them how they can rid themselves of this minority, often to murderous results?  While also complaining about how "oppressed" they are in their own country?  And doing their best to stop civil rights for the minority at every turn?  And so-on, ad nauseum?

Or, to quote Wolverine: "[Man] called me a disease.  You know how that feels to me?  I can't even sheathe.  My claws won't go back.  [He] said we were a disease."1

... Oh, hey, is that my shoulder-chip showing?  How embarassing.

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1Astonishing X-Men #2
#10

boraxe

Mar 23, 2010 13:03:44
I thought they were called "freedom psychiatrists" now.

But can you blame any modern french psychiatrist for spawning a "movement" that racks in the dough by telling a rather unhappy minority that they can fix themselves if they fork over a lot of cash and allow themselves to be brainwashed, while also going around to various African nations and telling them how they can rid themselves of this minority, often to murderous results?  While also complaining about how "oppressed" they are in their own country?  And doing their best to stop civil rights for the minority at every turn?  And so-on, ad nauseum?


Really? Cos to me that sounds an awful lot like a certain monotheistic religion.
#11

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 13:09:49
Really? Cos to me that sounds an awful lot like a certain monotheistic religion.


Different chip.  My shoulders have space for a whole bunch of 'em.
#12

Shiftkitty

Mar 23, 2010 13:12:23
Are you asking if someone can be blamed for spawning genocide? Uhhhhhhh... yeah.......?

Anyway, nobody's "blaming" anyone for anything. The OP just said that he preferred American psychiatrists to French ones. Okay. I prefer British spelling to most American spelling. Whose to say I'm wrong? Whose to say the OP is wrong?
#13

toastedamphibian

Mar 23, 2010 14:54:09
Are you asking if someone can be blamed for spawning genocide? Uhhhhhhh... yeah.......?

Anyway, nobody's "blaming" anyone for anything. The OP just said that he preferred American psychiatrists to French ones. Okay. I prefer British spelling to most American spelling. Whose to say I'm wrong? Whose to say the OP is wrong?



I'll say your wrong. Hell, your both wrong. Not that anyone cares if I say your wrong, as I have no sway here, and no justification for my declaration aside from a momentary desire to be contrary.
#14

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 16:56:05
... "momentary"?
#15

Shiftkitty

Mar 23, 2010 16:59:05

LOL, we're all wrong, all right? ;)

#16

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 17:07:04
I'm not.  I know precisely what I'm talking about.
#17

toastedamphibian

Mar 23, 2010 18:10:56
... "momentary"?



Momentary refers to duration alone, saying nothing of frequency.
#18

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 18:47:03
Momentary refers to duration alone, saying nothing of frequency.


Yes.  I don't think your "desire to be contrary" is ever momentary.  I'm inclined to say it's continuous, even.
#19

Shiftkitty

Mar 23, 2010 18:49:23
I'm not.  I know precisely what I'm talking about.



Which means you're wrong, if my premise is correct. But if I'm right, and we're all wrong, where does that leave it? And if I'm wrong, then we're not all right. And if we're not all right, then we're, what? Ambivalent?
#20

toastedamphibian

Mar 23, 2010 18:52:00
Momentary refers to duration alone, saying nothing of frequency.


Yes.  I don't think your "desire to be contrary" is ever momentary.  I'm inclined to say it's continuous, even.



...
That's just cruel EE. Taunting me with such an obvious opportunity to make a self-conflicting statment.
#21

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 19:13:22
@Shiftkitty

Well, to be unfair, if your premise is correct, and "we're all wrong", then that extends to you as well, meaning that your statement about us all being wrong is wrong.  Since for your statement to be true, your statement must also be wrong, we have a paradox.  The only logical conclusion is that, at the very least, you are wrong. 

Whether anyone else is right or wrong is, at that point, irrelevant.

@ToastedAmphibian

How so?  I'm saying you're always contrary and that it's not a short-lived (however frequent) momentary burst.
#22

toastedamphibian

Mar 23, 2010 20:05:38
I could:
A) Agree with you that I am continously contrary
or
B) Continue being contrary by being contrary and claiming I am not contrary.

Both options are equally ammusing to me, and I simply could not pick one over the other, as much as I wanted to. Heart wrenching. So very cruel of you to craft such an obvious and excellent trap.
#23

EscherEnigma

Mar 23, 2010 20:43:33
... damn.  I'm more devious then I thought.  Go me!
#24

tequila_sunrise

Mar 24, 2010 18:02:10
Okay. I prefer British spelling to most American spelling. Whose to say I'm wrong? Whose to say the OP is wrong?


I say you're wrong!

British and American spelling is only marginally different; and both are equally archaic and confusing.

Wink
#25

ADHadh

Mar 25, 2010 8:41:49
Maybe in order to sympathize with the OP we should switch to French altogether. C'est vrai?
#26

Rustmonster

Mar 26, 2010 17:33:14
Really? Cos to me that sounds an awful lot like a certain monotheistic religion.


Different chip.  My shoulders have space for a whole bunch of 'em.



Broad shoulders? You must be HOT.
#27

EscherEnigma

Mar 26, 2010 18:08:36
Nah, the chips just stack up pretty nicely.  That said, I'm sure it won't be long before someone comes along with the leather-pants pic.
#28

Rustmonster

Mar 27, 2010 1:16:28
Nah, the chips just stack up pretty nicely.  That said, I'm sure it won't be long before someone comes along with the leather-pants pic.



So you have Pringles (tm) on your shoulder?