A Story For a Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology

 I am a familiar with a young person about to start graduate studies in School Psychology which means that this individual will be emersed in much of the same theories and ideas as Clinical Psychology. I  hope this individual (and all others entering the field) enjoys being a psychologist as much as I did but should be aware that the field has many serious critics of many of the basic concepts of the field of clinical and school psychology. These include the concepts of mental illnesses and disorders, the wholesale diagnosing of our population including children, the widespread use of brain altering and damaging drugs as treatments and the fact that the field often operates more like a religion than a science creating problems for anyone trying to be a critic of current ideas and procedures. It is my hope that all new students will be familar with all sides of the controversies within the field and respectful of those who promote them.