Talk:Kay Redfield Jamison

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[edit] Qualifications

Can anyone help clarify Jamison's professional training/qualifications before I try to clarify on the page. It is listed here and in many places on the web that she is a professor of psychiatry or a psychiatrist, but in some places, including a recent book I have, that she's a clinical psychologist. The Wikipedia disambiguation page for her name refers to her as a Psychiatrist.

I read that she originally started undergraduate medical training but stopped about halfway through, instead switching to clinical psychology in which it seems she qualified [1]. I see she later moved from UCLA psychology dept to the psychiatry dept of John Hopkins and was made professor, but she doesn't appear to be an MD [2].

So it looks like she's actually a clinical psychologist (but is she practicing/certified to practice as one?) rather than a psychiatrist, who nevertheless works mainly in psychiatry and was made a professor of psychiatry by John Hopkins University... EverSince 11:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)