Disappearing Shrink

Q: My goodness, are you EVER going to make another entry? - Anonymous

Q: Have you died and gone to shrink heaven? - Anonymous

Q: Sure do miss reading your extended 'ramblings' here on ironshrink… it has been too QUIET in here, come back! - another whipper-snapper

A: You care. You really care! (sniff)

OK, I may have stepped away from IronShrink for a couple of... months.

But hey! I wasn’t twiddling my thumbs!

I went to a rodeo.

I bought goblets in WaKeeney. (Coolest fishbowls ever. Half the set went off to college with the Iron Nephew.)

And I took some pictures at Silver Dollar Lake.

If that’s not enough to get your juices flowing, major upgrades happened to my private practice and this website.

Upgrade number one was the decision to enter the somewhat experimental realm of online mental health services. I’m not the only one doing it but, at the risk of sounding immodest, I’m one of the few who has gone to great lengths to do it correctly and ethically.

Upgrade number two involved the back end of this website. It now has buns of steel:

I won’t bore you with the details (PHP driven MySQL database with dynamically generated HTML includes) but the new arrangement makes it infinitely easier to post new articles.

That means this fall will carry us to new heights in self-indulgent, marginally useful Q&A sessions. We’ll explore Relational Frame Theory! We’ll weigh the pros and cons of pursuing an exciting career in psychology! I’ll unveil what I hope to be the next national holiday! And we’ll return to the subject that some of you just can’t get enough of: BDSM.

Coming up next: How to Tell if Your Therapist is Crazy. I hear frequent tales of psychology gone bad, and more than a few of you have written in to ask why my profession should be trusted. Are mental health workers a bunch of addicted, superstitious, emotionally-crippled skulls full of pudding?

Subscribe to the RSS feed if you don’t want to miss the exciting answer! Thanks for the patronage and the patience. Hope to see you back here soon.

-IS