How a cat named Zoe earned several advanced degrees and became a psychotherapist

A sheepskin does n’t necessarily indicate expertness . Zoe D Katze , Ph.D. , C.Ht . , DAPA , for example , has a wall of diplomas , despite being unable to sign her name . She does n’t have the opposable pollex for it .

Steve Eichel , Ph.D. , ABPP , who I can wear earned his degree the hard fashion , got upset with the amount of credentialing being give way out to uneducated hacks . These degrees were concentrated in the less rigorously controlled professions , such as hypnotherapy and diet direction , but could branch out to more generalised degrees – hence the ‘ PhD ’ diploma clutched in the hirsute Doctor Katze ’s claw . He require to prove that sheepskin mills were happy to give out sheepskin to anyone , giving easy credibility to scammers and a worthless opus of newspaper publisher to people who wanted to seem civilise . All he needed was some money .

Which does n’t mean the summons did n’t take some subject . One does n’t get a PhD overnight . Eichel started with a crappy little hypnotherapy organisation , comprise mostly of people without courtly academic backgrounds , and ponied up the lotion fee for documentation . After a few of those certifications piled up , he went after bigger fair game .

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Eichel apply for a degree ( for Zoe ) from the American Psychotherapy Association , an organisation of which he ’d been a phallus . They bespeak a listing of academic certification , and he went beforehand and made a few up , including doctorates from mail - order colleges and a position at “ Tacayllaermi Friends School ” – Tacayllaermi is “ I ’m really a cat ” spelled backward . To be fair , I think only Zatanna would catch that . The APA certainly did n’t . They made her a Diplomate .

Zoe ’s stunning pedantic and professional vocation is actually pretty common . A bully number of animalshave professional or donnish certifications . Most of these were obtained as part of a stunt to shame the organization or to ply grounds for cause or politics investigations . My advice for sheepskin mills ? Do n’t give degrees in ‘ life experience , ’ use babelfish on names obsessionally , and automatically pooh-pooh anyone named “ Sassafras . ”

ViaDr . Eichel.com .

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