Posted by 10derHeart on October 29, 2009, at 21:47:41
In reply to sickening » Dr. Bob, posted by psych chat on October 29, 2009, at 18:30:29
> I cannot believe the mental health doctor who runs this board has absolutely no capacity for empathy.
I'm not sure you or I or anyone who does not know Dr. Bob intimately, or isn't his doctor, therapist, etc., can accurately make that assessment. I think Dr. Bob has the capacity for empathy. I have experienced it personally when I was a deputy. I have been, though, disappointed and dismayed by the types of situations where I think/feel he *ought* to be able to "see the light" and feel more depth and breadth of empathy (enough to make him seriously reconsider decisions?)
This would be one of those times. I'm not sure at this point if he is missing the points posters are so passionately trying to make, sees some points but strongly disagrees, or something else. I believe he cares about Babble, but right now the way he expresses that and the way we want him to do so are at serious, serious odds. It feels so, so sad to me :-(
> It's now obvious why you are not involved in clinical practice. It is not possible for a person with no empathy to be a psychiatrist.
Well, he *is* a psychiatrist, regardless...and why do you think he is not involved in clinical practice?
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