As a psychiatrist and FJ in the Myers-Briggs personality type system, the concept of ‘social distancing’ goes against everything my professional training and personal values dictate… under normal circumstances, that is. But we are entering a time of rapid change of what is ‘normal’ in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. As we adapt to this… Continue reading Six Tips for Social Un-Distancing and the role of Extraverted Feeling Amidst a Pandemic
Eighteen months out of residency and into outpatient psychiatry private practice, for the first time since before medical school, I'm coming home actually feeling a surplus of energy to put into my life outside of clinical practice. Sure, I did my best to maintain my interests and relationships during my training, but doing so felt… Continue reading How to Lead a Sustainable Life: a Physician’s Victory Over Burnout
No one likes sleep deprivation, right? And as much as residency (and aspects of practice for a lot of specialties and services where physicians take call etc.) demand this, I realized in residency I was depriving myself of sleep when it wasn't really called for by my duties. I later came to understand I was… Continue reading Why Extraverted Feeling Needed Sleep but Didn’t Want it When I Was in Residency
I bid farewell to four people this month who I’ve been caring for in my outpatient psychiatry practice — all under sensitive circumstances but ultimately moving in positive directions. As I write formal discharge letters, the unique role psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians play in the lives and minds of the people we… Continue reading When You Can’t Help Any More
Harmony is a value that many people aspire to embody outside of the Personality Typology community. It is a nearly universal tenet of human society but in the form of Extraverted Feeling (Fe) it seems ironically to be a black sheep in the family of Jungian cognitive functions. I notice a lot of push-back from… Continue reading The Dissonance of Harmony
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