Dr. Björk Ψ @drbjork@scholar.social

By way of #introduction, I could also mention that I am also a #GenderStudies scholar and #feminist.

I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and work #psychologist at the Swedish National Employment Service. I have a keen interest in #PhilosophyOfPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind, #CriticalPsychology, #HistoryOfPsychology and #Phenomenology. I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se. Is that enough as an #introduction?

"It is a credit to the psychologists of the nineteenth century that they valiantly undertook to apply such methods to psychological phenomena, for only by attempting to develop psychology in such a fashion could the limits of the method be assessed. It is less of a credit to the legions that have dutifully imitated these efforts for the better part of a century."

(D. N. Robinson, An intellectual history of psychology, 1995, p. 332)

"What has been characteristic of experimental psychology is the adoption of a rather prosaic set of experimental “controls” and a repeated-measures paradigm. In a wide variety of settings, this method of procedure has yielded fairly stable functional relationships between dependent and independent variables under conditions generally so unlike the domain of interest as to render generalizations jejune.

"If you want to know me, then you must know my story, for my story defines who I am. And if I want to know myself, to gain insight into the meaning of my own life, then I too must come to know my own story." (Dan McAdams, The Stories We Live By,1993)

#psychology #narrative #narrativetheory #narrativepsychology

(When I said I thought the field of "experimental #philosophy" was interesting because it in my eyes are what #psychology should have been since it picks up where the followers of James and Wundt left, they just stared at me in confused disbelief...)

Visited my old PhD supervisor and her friend and regular co-author this evening. They're working on a text on the history of qualitative methods within #psychology. Mission impossible. Didn't miss the academic world one bit, to be honest.

Maybe I do more good as a psychologist, after all.

Are there any psychologists out there?

#psychology #psychologist #clinicalpsychology #workpsychology #industrialpsychology #organizationalpsychology

The first piece of my new life finally fell in place today: I signed a transfer contract for a condominium.

I have a home.

Got a tip about a job today and immediately applied for it. Psychologist in occupational health care. Might actually suit me.

Tomorrow, I would have signed the contract for my new apartment, but the buyer of my house suddenly withdrew their bid.

The day before yesterday I was offered a temporary, not permanent, position after August.

The whole process of finally getting a sustainable life situation came to an abrupt halt.

Hello depression, anxiety and insomnia. So glad to see you again.

#fml

I need a new #battery for my old 2012 #Nexus7. Where can I find a cheap one? I can only find them for the same price as a brand new tablet with same specs.