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This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

While still in school, my clinical psych professor, a guy I respect a lot, did give us a lecture about this attitude as it is becoming more and more prevalent unfortunately. He said you will inevitably work with people you do not want to work with in your training. You can go on to choose your clients later on but you WILL be expected to have this skill and even exceed at it. Yes, even predators. Yes even offenders. Yes even “those” people who scare you. You will train in prisons. You will train in hospitals. Working with difficult clients is unavoidable. You absolutely must learn to do it. If you cannot, then stop wasting your time and switch majors now

If academic psychology had any teeth this person would not make it beyond year 1. Unfortunately it doesn’t. It’s a field with rampant historical racism, eugenics, and pseudoscience. That’s how people like the person who wrote those tags make it so far despite being completely unqualified to counsel a single baked bean

Hello! I want to add on to this from the perspective of someone with ‘taboo perversions’ (nothing illegal, but certainly ‘disturbing’) who has also gone through a lot of mental health treatment and assessments. If you don’t want to read about that, don’t go forth!