psychiatry

the allure of psychiatry is that with each patient who comes before you baring his or her problems, the interviewer glances fleetingly at his own predicament. at this point many possibilities could happen. one might see his problem as a third person, privy to an image from the future, and shocked at what might soon occur. the patient doctor relationship becomes blurred. who is the doctor? who the patient? with each case one identifies one's own problems. with each advice dispensed, one feels like the hypocrite or the experienced. a journey into the patient's mind and psyche is as much an introspective analysis of the analyser's.