Humor: Psychologists losing dough as recount nears

[Clark2008]

http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10242

A licensed Florida psychologist who treated 20 John Kerry supporters for “post-election trauma” after their candidate’s loss to President Bush said Monday that the Ohio recount had cheered up Democrats and left him without any patients.
Douglas Schooler, a Boca Raton psychologist who treated the Kerry partisans with intense hypnotherapy after they proved unable to handle the reality of losing to Bush, said last week’s Ohio recount announcement and reshuffling of the president’s cabinet gave Democrats an emotional outlet for their frustrations. As a result, he said Kerry supporters had stopped contacting him for election therapy.
“All of a sudden, my phone stopped ringing and the people I was talking to felt more encouraged,” Schooler told the Boca Raton News. “Originally, the deafening silence from the Kerry campaign threw people for a loop. Now even Kerry has e-mailed his supporters to say the votes will be counted and the irregularities investigated. That’s all they ever wanted to hear.”

Well, it beats being depressed!! :)

[bling bling]

1. Unethical comment

"Isn’t this so Boca? It’s too much already,” said Phil Heller, a Boca psychologist. “I understand that people invested a lot in the election, but I think this psychologist used their problems to make money. I just met with someone who was in a head-on collision. Now that’s a real trauma.” (From linked article in original post)

A psychologist belittling other people's trauma's, regardless of what the cause or perceived cause may be, is unethical. Phill Heller needs to check himself.

[YellowDoginthehouse]

2. It's still funny...n/t

n/t

[Ima]

3. well

maybe after the recount he will get Repug patients.:)

[sandnsea]

4. I agree with Heller

How'd this make it into the news in the first place? The psychologist put it there, that's how. Self-promotion to make money.