Its incredibly well known that Psychology has incredibly strict "re-learning" policies to keep your license. Speak of the APA here in America, you need to attend something like 50-100 hours of "continued education" every single year to keep your license. Most of which is always the exact same type of seminars on diversity and gender and the newest woke shit, unless you get extremely lucky and can get into a real meaty bio-psyche presentation.
This is something that was made clear to me as an undergrad, and factored heavily into my decision to not continue a career in the field despite years of college wasted on it. The amount of red tape, especially political red tape, required to practice in the field made it completely worthless for its singular task of "helping people."
So, its a bit hard to take his "woe is me" article as seriously, when he should have and almost certainly did know this was not only possible but had already attended plenty. Not only that, but given his other politics he probably happily supported them and help the industry push them onto others until his politics were effected.
The Psyche field has been owned by the government and their "Boards" for longer than he has been alive. But you only have to play by their rules if you are in it for the money, because they can't stop you from just talking to people normally. Only taking money for it.
Its incredibly well known that Psychology has incredibly strict "re-learning" policies to keep your license. Speak of the APA here in America, you need to attend something like 50-100 hours of "continued education" every single year to keep your license. Most of which is always the exact same type of seminars on diversity and gender and the newest woke shit, unless you get extremely lucky and can get into a real meaty bio-psyche presentation.
This is something that was made clear to me as an undergrad, and factored heavily into my decision to not continue a career in the field despite years of college wasted on it. The amount of red tape, especially political red tape, required to practice in the field made it completely worthless for its singular task of "helping people."
So, its a bit hard to take his "woe is me" article as seriously, when he should have and almost certainly did know this was not only possible but had already attended plenty. Not only that, but given his other politics he probably happily supported them and help the industry push them onto others until his politics were effected.
The Psyche field has been owned by the government and their "Boards" for longer than he has been alive. But you only have to play by their rules if you are in it for the money, because they can't stop you from just talking to people normally. Only taking money for it.