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My Life - Immigrant and Clinical Psychologist (Hardcover)
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My Life - Immigrant and Clinical Psychologist (Hardcover)
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The book began as a long letter to the author's four grandchildren
in order to give them some understanding of their background but
this soon developed into a full autobiography. Author recounts
family predicament, tensions and fear of arrest after Hitler's
invasion of Austria; leaving Austria with seconds to spare on the
very last train to leae for the Channel Ports and arrival in UK as
immigrants followed by 5 years of family separation in England and
Isle of Man. It describes near instant annihilation from a V2
Rocket; a brief account of the history of Europe after 1st and 2nd
World Wars provides insight into basic reason for European Union
and disgust with the apparent ignorance of those UK politicians who
led the charge to Brexit. It recounts the trauma of the death of
his Father soon after family reunion; his experience of Boarding
School; and recounts an alpine expedition with his mother and
brother and 2nd near instant annihilation. There followed
University and subsequent training as a Clinical Psychologist, then
grappling with 200 years of psychiatry's miss-direction and its
consequences within an out-dated institutional direction, somewhat
reminiscent of 'One flew over the Cuckoos Nest' and his
bitter-sweat results of 9 years of development of his department
into the largest or equal largest psychology department within the
NHS and the consequent jealousies and battles. Overall a highly
successful career as Clinical Psychology, with part time
appointment to initial Mental Health Act Commission- and
experiencing the interesting politics of the Commission. Pension
and Retirement from NHS in 1995 was followed by appointments within
2 GP practices and the additional creation of a new career as an
Expert Witness to Criminal, Civic and Family Courts leading to
appointment as representative of British Psychological Society to
the High Court's Family Division Sub-Committee re. Expert
Witnesses; leading to Family Court funding of research into quality
of psychologists reports to three representative Family Courts and
consequent bitter confrontation with a few offended psychologists
upset at its highly critical findings. Also recounted is some very
critical comments on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Units and
the failure of some, but by no means all, Clinical Psychologists in
their understanding of the background of child and adolescent
problems.
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