Posts Tagged ‘Positive Projective Psychology’
Friday, June 25th, 2010
A couple of days ago I was lambasted on Facebook. While I went with it posting candidly, it got rather insulting. Still, I kept my comments honest. Sadly, they were not appreciated. Moreover, my expertise and credibility were challenged.
Part of that challenge was because I was employing or had “invented” “new terms” that “had not been accepted,” yet. Actually, I have been inventive. I use the term “Positive Projective Psychology” and the terms “Negative Projective Process” and “Negative Projective Psychology” to differentiate my perspective from the common clinical practises of the day–which I consider sub-par treatment! So, I am guilty as charged. Those are new concepts and they are mine.
Also, I use advanced concepts which have not been heard much. In part, this is because I am ahead of the curve. An example of this is Bipolar Disorder Type III. While this is not is use yet, you’ll hear about it if it makes it past the hurdles in committee formulating the new DSM-V. I heard about Bipolar Disorder Type III three years ago. It is a significant development in that it is a bold-faced admission that psychiatric medications cause permanent mental illness!
It bothers me that I was attacked but then those who attacked me, don’t know me. In fact, they don’t know anything! I was called a “narcissistic.” I guess everyone thinks they are a psychologist or they can practise psychology. I wish I had a little more narcissism in me but I am the way I am, as God intended me.
My middle initial should be “G” because I have been gullible. It took me years believing in what I was taught in school to realize what a farce my field was (and is) and how much damage clinical psychology (as practised today) is doing to our society. I owe the people of Mississippi a lot but that debt has been discharged fully in my service to those wonderful folks at low pay for several years and that was time well spent.
It was inside the walls of Arizona’s maximum security prisons that I honed my craft and developed quick and concise skills of intervention with those who needed my services most. They may not have been deserving but I was saving lives–the lives of those on the outside as my murderers, rapists and thieves were released back to society.
Had I been more narcissistic, I might have not worked there and gone into private practise and still have a license and a practise today. Maybe I would have published and become better known but I would never have developed the razor sharp skills of intervention and the insights in psychology I have.
I regard my contributions to the field of psychology and the body of scientific knowledge as minor, but I know the best psychology and psychologists. The most significant contributor of our time is Steven Hayes, Ph.D. and his “Acceptance & Commitment Therapy,” the most advanced form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), also known as ACT. Dr. Hayes has answered most of the questions B.F. Skinner asked in 1952. I am proud to have had Steven as a guest on my Talk Radio Show “Giving Psychology Away.”
These days I am struggling. When you get to the level of consciousness I have, you see clearly what is going on and the trends are alarming. However, there is solace for me in knowing that I am in the latter half of my life. I have seen some incredible inventions. I remember the invention of the ball point pen. What a breakthrough that was! The computer had already been invented but transistors came on the scene shortly after I was born.
But I have also seen the rise of the audacity of man. A puny little man who challenges God! And the foolishness grows.
I was born into a private family that was going military. Because of the shelter that provided, I saw our country as it was during its Golden Days and the Golden Age of the United States of America has passed so long ago that few remain alive to tell of it and no one wants to hear about it.
Still, what we saw, witnessed and lived were not our best days. We were not at out best. A simple reading of the newspapers of colonial times reveals a far more educated population. The average colonial citizen was a genius compared to those our institutions of higher learning of today produce with doctorates. I have seen “inflation” and “degradation” in our educational system.
It is all corrupt, controlled by an elite we do not see. We do not know. And we are complacent to let the status quo go on unimpeded while it slowly destroys US and plans our further enslavement. They already have our minds but this captivity is not that different from the exiles of the Jews to Babylon.
Moreover, we are beholden to the same group of repugnant worshippers of power. Power given from the following of Lucifer and making deals with the devil. The fight between Good & evil (sic).
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
. . . was necessary in order to avoid more retaliation at the hands of the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. Since then I have successfully retired my psychologist licenses and I have left the State of Arizona.
It’s good to be back blogging and in Alaska. I have added twitter to my web presence at http://twitter.com/DrKentShow
However, I am still in recovery after a long ordeal that began at the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) and was continued by the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. But I can report gains and discoveries.
If you read my new tabbed web pages entitled “Giving Psychology Away” and “Positive Projective Psychology,” I think you’ll begin to get a flavor of why I left the field and gave up my psychologist licenses.
Psychologists are supposed to be stalwarts of society and when psychologists begin to make wrong choices and do bad things, all of society suffers. As you read my blog, you will come to understand what I am referring to.
I promise I won’t let you down. I will do the right thing and I will astound you with my insights and revelations.
After giving practically everything I owned away (donating) and returning to Alaska, getting settled has been rough. Day Light Savings Time is terrible; Day Light Savings Time is bad for biological systems.
The drive up the Alaskan Canadian Highway (the Alcan) was an ordeal. It became the second most dangerous ride of my life only after my family’s first excursion up the Alcan in the summer of 1969 before it was paved. Back then we drove in a cloud of dust and slid the whole way up on the fist-sized rocks they called gravel. Only this time I was driving. Except for my cat and my dog I was alone.
I hit the road just five days after the first snowfall. Snow removal was poor to non-existent as the Canadians had just broken out their snow removal equipment. The road was icy and deeply rutted by truck tire chains. I had a tire blow out on my trailer at speed.
It seemed everyone who was towing a trailer ended up off the road in the ditch and stuck exceptfor me in my AWD SUV with its sophisticated traction controls. It took every bit of its 450 HP to pull me and my trailer back up onto the road when I was trying to avoid T-boning an 18-wheeler on the morning of my last day on the Alcan. My U-Haul trailer ended up weighing several hundred pounds more and looked like a dirty ice cube–covered in sheets & slabs of ice and dirt in Whitehorse. Worst of all: My cat Curly died in Edmonton. I really miss him. Curly used to rouse me every morning and insisted we played first thing. He was a good cat.
I met some really nice people on the road back and the overriding concensus: We were all gladly leaving the lower 48 states in order to escape the ominous fate of the contiguous states and their big cities.
Everyone felt we were leaving Sodom & Gomora just in time. Indeed, we have. More on that later. Much much more.
Welcome, to the newly improved Dr. Kent web site. I hope my fans will find me and once again make my blog and web site rise to the top of Internet search engines.
Your suggestions for my web site & blog and my web presence and your continued prayers & support are greatly appreciated.
At your service,
Dr. Kent
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Psychiatrist Peter Breggin is one of the most brilliant minds in the field of mental health:
http://www.breggin.com/
Dr. Breggin was ahead of his time and his philosophy regarding mental health & mental illness as simple as it is formed the basis from which I developed Positive Projective Psychology. Peter’s philosophy gave the “yard stick” by which to measure mental distress and to assist my clients in getting their needs met and achieving their goals.
Clearly and dearly, I am indebted to Peter for his ability to see through the confusion “modern science” and “medicine” has foisted off on us as both “science” and “treatment.” Were it not for Peter and his lovely wife Ginger Breggin I would not have become the psychologist* I have been nor would I have ever achieved the levels of health and satisfaction I have.
Ginger invited me to become a member of the Advisory Council for International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. It was not until I participated in the ICSPP listserv that I was confronted by other professionals and my education completed. Indeed, I miss those early days on the listserv and I really appreciate those folks who reared me up on the listserv.
The challenging remarks by others more experienced and older than I really brought my thinking around. They helped me realize the terrible bill of goods that we were forced to swallow in the name of (phony) “higher education.” I am forever grateful and indebted to those others who corrected me in kindness.
Truly, my peers on the listserv contributed immensely to my life, professionally and personally. And I regret not staying in touch with them and my inability to recall names and give them public credit. However, if you are or were a member of that listserv, I would love to hear from you. Please drop me a line.
My relationship with the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology ended some time ago in approximately 2002. At the time, I was overwhelmed with my own health care & insurmountable difficulties at work, and the listserv was peppered with national politics as I tried to get ICSPP back on track and focused upon the mission which united us:
Improving the practises of psychiatry & psychology
Providing a concerted challenge to the hegemony of the Medical Model and the stranglehold the Pharmaceutical Industry holds on mental health care
Focusing upon developing, finding and disseminating superior treatments in mental health
Restoring the crown of science that once belonged to Psychology
and in particular to
American Behavioral Psychology
I highly recommend the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and their professional journal:
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry:
An International Journal of Critical Inquiry.
One may visit ISCPP at:
http://www.icspp.org/
*I worked as a psychologist in the past but am barred from holding myself out as a psychologist and practising in the State of Arizona.
However, for the sake of accuracy be it known my
Arizona Psychologist #3339 is medically inactive.
“Science” has become “political” in the sense espoused my Mao.
Rather than at the end of a gun, we have committees we call Boards which rule as despots.
Edit this entry.
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
The current DSM is the DSM IV-TR in which “TR” stands for “Text Revision.” The most significant change between the DSM IV and the DSM IV-TR is that a new criterion was inserted almost universally into every category of major mental illness:
Denial of having a mental disorder or a mental illness became a bonafide criterion for diagnosing the client with mental illness.
That may not seem so odd but it is subtle. Now, if a person claimed they were healthy, that “denial” counted as a mark in the check list finding that person mentally ill!
Thus, the entire field of mental health became self-serving and self-centered. Rather than rely upon the client complaining & requesting our help, we were and are going to find them mentally ill and in need of our services, no matter what. Whether they need our services or want them, matters not. All that matters is what we as “experts” say.
Such a move (to the “TR”) further strains credibility and reveals that what passes for mental health treatment today is nothing more than projecting negative diagnoses and labels upon less sophisticated, helpless and vulnerable persons who are unable to defend themselves from the overwhelming onslaught of the “experts,” from the numbers and shear size of the community of mental health treatment providers.
It is a stacked deck against which no one prevails. While those in cushy positions making larger salaries may think they are helping their fellow man, all they are really doing is helping themselves by riding on the backs of those upon whom they cast their labels, if you will, upon the backs of those upon whom they ‘cast their spells.’
Gee, maybe psychology really has become a field dominated by women. Dare I say witchcraft? Because
most of the professionals I see today, old and young alike, male and female alike, don’t know what they are doing!
This is why I call the practice that prevails today “Negative Projective Psychology” and why I have come up with the term “Positive Projective Psychology” to contrast the errors made across the field which cause so many in our country to suffer.
A tell tale sign of negative practice is a practitioner who claims that ‘therapy is “hard” and it is “stressful” for the practitioner.’ Hog wash! If it is difficult for those practitioners, it is because they have been ill trained, poorly equipped and don’t understand the limitations of natural boundaries & empowering and truly helping their clients!
Lastly, “liberal” psychologists should not be treating “conservative” clients! This is because of the value system impasse.
Conservatives understand the true meaning and quest for independence and independent functioning, whereas, liberals caretakers invoke dependency and make their patient’s dependent upon them. They want them coming back so they can make that payment on their air planes, vacations or extra houses.
Liberals do not want their clients’ getter better and leaving them. In part, it may be an “abandonment issue” for the practitioner! But it is mostly about keeping the money flowing.
Such is the fate of an industry controlled by insurance companies and subject to mismanagement of motivation on the part of the professionals! According to one malpractice attorney with whom I consulted, the insurance companies have tainted it all! The insurance companies have ruined it all!
There is no safe place.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
By the time the DSM III R was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1987, the field of psychology had been on the way to its demise. Many would argue that with the publication of the DSM III in 1980 the writing was on the wall. The “political” rivalries that dominated the work conducted by multiple committees were the beginning of the downfall of psychology as the crown of science.
Certainly, the rise of the American Psychological Association (note: This is a “different” APA than above.) and its encroachment on the credentialing (accreditation) of colleges and university programs in psychology crested during that same time. It is odd to observe these forces at work at the same time, but the fact is psychology became more politicized and psychiatry overtook psychology during those years as the profession recognized as the leader in mental health treatment. During that time the pay of the average psychologist diminished greatly.
While liberals, especially feminists, blamed the drastic decrease in salaries to male chauvinism and the field becoming recognized as a field dominated by women who we don’t pay as much as men, the sad realities are a bit different. Certainly, the profession today has more women than men. Salaries are depressed for all.
Psychiatry achieved dominance by getting their DSM series recognized and adopted by the entire profession, including psychologists and social workers. Adoption of psychiatry’s DSM was guaranteed when insurance companies began reimbursing services for disorders coded with DSM diagnoses. Moreover, the DSM series implied the only real treatment for mental disorders was medication, hence, the rise of the hegemony of the Medical Model and the demise of psychology.
The second reality was that the field of psychology did not become a field dominated by women as much as it was affected by the law of supply and demand. Each year during that decade, the schools and universities were pumping out so many graduates that supply exceeded demand. Under such circumstances, prices fall naturally. In fact, on average there were 250-400 graduates each year who could not find suitable post doctoral internships in order to obtain licensure!
Today, that mismatch continues and it is not advised that anyone enter the field unless they feel a real “calling.” In fact, one is likely to make more money over one’s lifetime in nursing with an average investment of four (4) years of undergraduate education in comparison to the additional five (5) years of graduate tuition required to achieve a doctorate. Remember, most people who begin that quest do not finish.
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
As I said during one of my earlier shows (Check my Archived Shows as they are edited commercial free.), I got by for years earning a very meager living in order to become a psychologist. One of my early lessons with my mentor was facing my impoverished sense of delayed gratification. It was underdeveloped.
For years I lived out of card board boxes and my mattress (no box spring or frame) was on the floor. A cardboard box with a towel over it served as a night stand. Even though I probably qualified for Food Stamps and had a lot of seemingly tremendous unmet needs, I would motivate myself via my self talk. And I would ask myself each day:
“What can I do without today?”
“What can I live without today?”
You’d be surprised what you can do without for one day that day, today. I learned during extremely hard times to enjoy little things and dwell on them. Rather than focus on what was wrong or what I didn’t have, I learned the peace & positive frame of mind achievable just by having an attitude of gratitude for the seemingly simple things in life.
Let’s see . . . I slept in peace last night. I’m having three meals today. I got a shower and my clothes are clean. Such simple things as dwelling on the beauty of the day, the smell of the roses if you will, became very important to me.
From a dear one I learned to admire and enjoy the finer things, such as automobiles, of others from a distance. Not so much wanting one but just enjoying the fact they were around and I could see them. Just enjoying those for their beauty and reminding myself that I didn’t have to own an expensive car in order to enjoy the beauty in someone else’s instilled a wonderful peace.
I hope you, too, can develop a sense of delayed gratification, an attitude of gratitude and enjoy your life as much as I have mine.
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