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• W2333089608 abstract "“So, you’re a psychiatrist?” she asked. “No, I am in residency,” I demurred, but she dismissed that with an elegant wave of her hand, and asked me, somewhat flirtatiously, “Are you analyzing me?” I was single at the time, and she was quite attractive, and so I found myself nodding, eyes half shut trying to look inscrutable and mysterious. Over the years, I’ve been asked that question a few times—it’s one of the hazards of our occupation. In the beginning, I used to feel flattered by the idea that we psychiatrists could read people’s minds. But as my training progressed, and as I began to take psychiatry more seriously, the question started to irritate me. By my final year of residency, I was no longer pleased by a question that equated psychiatry with some esoteric self-indulgent practice like tarot card reading. “Yes, my dear child,” I responded one time, speaking in a Jamaican accent, mimicking the once infamous Miss Cleo. “Hand me your credit card and I will reveal everything about you.” “Huh? What? Why are you talking like that?” The reference was apparently too subtle, and my sarcasm was wasted. These past few years, my social circle has been mainly limited to other physicians, and it had been a while since anyone asked me that question. Then, recently, while at a fundraiser that my wife insisted we attend, a lady asked me, “Do you analyze people when you meet them at parties?” This time, I was neither irritated nor flattered, and although I shook my head and joked, “No, I don’t work for free,” I gave the question some more thought. The lady asking the question was wearing a bright red dress complemented by rather large earrings. Her voice was dramatic and loud, replete with colorful adjectives, as she told stories that cast her in the role of a damsel in distress, often rescued by a heroic male figure. To emphasize a point, she had the habit of touching one lightly on the arm. None of this had escaped me, so perhaps, yes, in a sense I had been analyzing her. It struck me that the question was usually asked by a woman. I am not sure why—maybe men feel too vulnerable to even consider that their psyche is open to analysis, or perhaps they think they lack the complexity that makes them a fascinating case study. The question was always asked in a lighthearted, almost offhand manner, as if the answer didn’t really matter. I wondered if this was an attempt at masking a deeper anxiety, a fear that the questioner’s own perceived neuroses are visible to the trained eye, making her feel understood and exposed at the same time. Now, I am not always sure what people mean by the word analyze. All of us, psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists alike, make observations about people when we meet them, judgments about their personality and mood, their attitude, and demeanor. So when a person asks a psychiatrist—“Are you analyzing me?”— I suppose she is really wondering if the psychiatrist’s observations are somehow different, perhaps more informed and accurate than someone else’s. I wondered, Are a psychiatrist’s observations about human behavior, in a nonclinical setting, qualitatively different—more informed and accurate—than a layperson’s? If these observations are to be deemed an “analysis,” they should be informed and aided by the psychiatrist’s training and expertise. In other words, the critical question is this: In a social situation, would your observations have been the same, if you were not a psychiatrist?" @default.
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