<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Doctoral level therapists in private practice can charge $125 per hour and up. This is big enough money for many. Psychiatrists have to get in to, pay for, and tolerate the non-mental health curriculum of medical school which certainly did not appeal to me. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">There is also the newer development of prescribing privileges for psychologists, so it can be option for some depending on the state. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The point I’d say is to help people, and people can be helped to make behavioral changes without medication. Many clients prefer this due to side effects, costs of medication, and med interactions. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 19, 2020, at 12:42 AM, John Grigg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">What is the point of becoming a professional therapist, if you can't prescribe psychiatric medications? That is where the money is at... I have a friend who is a psychiatrist, who likes to bring this up.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:27 PM Henry Rivera via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Master’s level is an end point for many psychotherapists: Social Workers, LPC, LMHC, LMFT to name a few FWIW. </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 15, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:47 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
My goal was only to highlight it's wasteful -- not to ask for a list<br>
of jobs where it's a base requirement. (Even in those cases, I<br>
wonder.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Understood. My point in replying wasn't to start a list that nobody wants, but to give a concrete example of a job that does require a Masters.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that degree requirements are lazy and inefficient. </div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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