Comments on: Experts vs Experience http://www.new-landscape.com/2010/01/experts-vs-experience/ New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hope http://www.new-landscape.com/2010/01/experts-vs-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-3244 hope Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:28:39 +0000 http://www.new-landscape.com/?p=610#comment-3244 An expert in any profession must have both required credentials and a depth of experiece that others in the field do not have. If both of these qualificatons are present a client must then use his/her heart as a guide. Without a sense of loving-connection no "expert" will be helpful and could possibly cause great harm. Unfortunately, I do not know how this last criteria can be met without investing lots of money and time, both of which can be very scarce for a lot of people. I waited for decades before seeking help because I knew inately that the person I talked to had to fill all of the above criteria. Then, when circumstances forced me to seek help I went to a relion-sponsored agency figuring that someone there would perhaps meet the criteria, especially the "loving-connection" one. I got lucky! If a choice has to be made between a credentialed therapist with less experience but with gifted interpersonal skills and someone with vast experience but only ordinary interpersonal skills, then I would definitly choose the person with less experience. An expert in any profession must have both required credentials and a depth of experiece that others in the field do not have. If both of these qualificatons are present a client must then use his/her heart as a guide. Without a sense of loving-connection no “expert” will be helpful and could possibly cause great harm. Unfortunately, I do not know how this last criteria can be met without investing lots of money and time, both of which can be very scarce for a lot of people.

I waited for decades before seeking help because I knew inately that the person I talked to had to fill all of the above criteria. Then, when circumstances forced me to seek help I went to a relion-sponsored agency figuring that someone there would perhaps meet the criteria, especially the “loving-connection” one. I got lucky!

If a choice has to be made between a credentialed therapist with less experience but with gifted interpersonal skills and someone with vast experience but only ordinary interpersonal skills, then I would definitly choose the person with less experience.

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