Clinic Internship

From October 2010 to January 2011 I interned at the Psychiatry of the Teaching Hospital of Cologne. I chose this place to live with my parents for a little bit. The downside: commuting four hours a day. That was actually horrible; those are lost hours. The internship was ok; I had a really nice supervisor, a lady from Denmark (note to myself: write her a postcard asap!). Content-wise my opinion of Behavioral Therapy received support in that it is really boring and stupid (for the therapist) although it might be quite effective for the patient. (Long topic; not gonna go into here.) I think I would not wanna work there and, what is worse, I really would not enjoy the 4-year training necessary to become a therapist (which does not even bring money, but is quite expensive). I would not enjoy it, because it's excruciatingly boring, the psych. trainees are not much respected by the medical doctors and I haven't yet met many trainees (or future ones) which seemed really interesting to me. Oh, well. That was the internship.