The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

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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’. Zoals naar mijn mening terecht op de achterzijde in een quote vermeld staat leest de gehele tekst als een roman. Ik was dus heel enthousiast toen ik ‘Niets is wat het lijkt’ bij Uitgeverij Rainbow zag voorbijkomen en het bovendien nog mocht gaan recenseren ook. Her TV presenting and on-screen expert credits include the BBC series Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways and Bedtime Live for Channel 4. It's these "details" that hint some degree of shallowness or even condescending towards her friends, making them seemed watered down to bare minimum constructs that define their whole being.

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I also found it a bit concerning that she seemed to be free to take on pretty complicated clients with barely any training.Beautiful men wanting beautiful men and beautiful women watching those excellently sexy girls who wanted something more than the sexy boys. She is often referred to by her colleagues and patients as 'sweetheart' and 'darling' and is repeatedly told how beautiful she is, what great bone structure she has, and so on; she is good enough to be a 'sex worker', in fact. Often, Byron is able to teach them something, too, but she frequently comes across as just another teenager.

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In what universe does a janitor take upon himself to be an intern's personal tour guide and dedicated tea server, and be welcomed by a psychotic patient who was free to wander around staff premises while singing the sound of music, welcomes her warmly like she is a VIP of a hospital? Initially I found the book refreshing- after all, there are not many books that look at case studies from the perspective of a trainee psych. Each chapter focuses on fictional “case studies” inspired by different patients she worked with throughout her placements.

Even in the case that people did tell her this in real life, I do not see any purpose in her consciously deciding that it was a worthy conversational topic to include into this book other than to praise herself. Books such as psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s The Examined Life and the work of the neurologist Oliver Sacks have proved popular with readers. We do not know if there was a real Molly or Tom or whether they are entirely a work of her imagination. Overal een klein lettertype en geen bijzondere opsmuk, hoofdstuknummering inclusief een korte zin onder ieder nummer die op de daarop volgende inhoudelijke tekst slaat.

The skeleton cupboard by Dr Tanya Byron Review: The skeleton cupboard by Dr Tanya Byron

But as she tells us in the introduction and again in the epilogue, the people she so vividly describes are entirely fictional, inspired by the real people she came into contact with.A region of the brain that influences higher mental functions often associated with intelligence, such as the ability to foresee the consequences of actions, planning, comprehension and mood. In her latter years, more advanced than her husband in dementia, she couldn't be showered, she had to be bathed with a sponge by her husband, she thought the showers were the deadly gas of the Nazi execution chambers, and to help him she would put a damp cloth over his nose and mouth. Before I begin my much anticipated gleeful bashing, I want to disclose that this book was not a total throwaway. I read a lot of memoirs, particularly by those in the field of mental health, and clinical/forensic psychology has always been especially fascinating to me. As cringe as this was to read, I still do not understand her decision to include her personal love/sex/lust life into a book that was for readers with an interest in clinical psychology, its occupation and patients.