I was looking at Paul Fink’s column in the April 2010 Clinical Psychiatry News, one of those newspaper format “journals” that we like to call “throwaway journals” because subscriptions are free and they summarize other journals, as they usually end up in the trash. He writes for other psychiatrists.  It is possible to identify with him if you do this for a living and are sentient enough to know what is going on around you.

I always liked this guy.  Older people have a lot to say when they have practiced long enough to see trends go up and down and know their fate.

If I remember correctly, he is the one who said a while ago something to the effect that psychiatry is like prostitution in that the amateurs think they know as much as the professionals.  Nobody has better nailed the central difficulty of this job. Read more on Purpose and Aging…