That TV psychologist

Posted by: Fisbey on 20 October 2004

There's an American lady who appears on TV from time to time under the guise of being a psychologist. I saw her the other day and she was talking about men now being more concerned with their 'image' and cited baldness as one thing men are more concerened about (apparently).

Now much as I'm sure this lady is very qualified (and pretty) - whenever I see her I get a bad feeling about modern psychology. I thought how we felt was more to do with what's inside - the dressing, as it were, being what we show to the outside world.

I'm sure those two makeover ladies (Trinny and whatever) would disagree - what do people here think?

A balding Fisbey!.....
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Mekon
I can't wait until the day I get a paper accepted by a peer-reviewed TV programme.
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Fisbey
It wasn't a review it was an opinion.
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by matthewr
If you can work pop-psychology, hip-hop and a spurious interactive element into a pitch, Mekon, I am sure BBC3 would snap it up. Pushes all the right demographic buttons.

With due deference to Linda Papadopoulos, my favourite TV Psych is Geoffrey Beattie with. <pause> His. <arch eyebrow> Peculiar over. Enunciated, dialog. With odd pauses and. Then. suddenlyfinishesthesentenceinarush.

Matthew
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by reductionist
While trying to find out who Linda Papadopoulos is I chanced on this site
http://www.andrewwalton.co.uk/newpage4.htm
very odd.

>Will add something funny when I think of it.<
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Rasher
Ahhh...the psychology of psychologists, eh?
That old chestnut..
I think Fisbey that you got it right straight off when you said "under the guise of being a psychologist" - except that of course a psychologist is only that anyway. So I suppose she is. Or isn't. Depending on how you look at it.
Winker
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Mekon
Fisbey, that's the point I was trying to make. Psychologists get on the telly 'cos they are willing to give a quirky opinion. I used to be on the same corridor as a shopping/identity researcher. Whilst they've done pieces for R4 and the Guardian a bunch of times, the person in question refused the Big Brother gig.

I don't think you should draw conclusions about the state of 'modern psychology' from the telly.

Matthew, write a virus-alike programme and you can be the talking head. We have the rationale, hypotheses, methods, and manipulation pretty much done, we just need a means of determining when a recipient has done something we tell them not to do.
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Fisbey
Oh OK - blimey I must get my sensitivities sorted out....

I try not to let TV affect me, but it does rile me some...

Just where I'm at I guess....

Sorry I took your reply the wrong way Smile
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Rasher
But you didn't
Big Grin
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Fisbey
I guess I picked the wrong day to give up tobacco, alcohol, amphetamines, etc.etc.. Eek
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Fisbey
I am the new dispensation.
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Fisbey
That last remark was a direct attack on paranoid schizophrenics Roll Eyes
Posted on: 20 October 2004 by Rasher
Should you be ashamed of yourself then?
Posted on: 21 October 2004 by Fisbey
We are Hugh Big Grin
Posted on: 21 October 2004 by JeremyD
quote:
Originally posted by Mekon:
I can't wait until the day I get a paper accepted by a peer-reviewed TV programme.
But perhaps it's precisely people like you who should be getting media coverage? Is research filtering through to clinicicans quickly enough? Is public policy on mental health guided or informed by up-to-date research?
Posted on: 21 October 2004 by Mekon
Whilst I've had 'meeja hoor' training from my research council, I have never been Ms Petite UK, nor am I ever likely to be.