Are men comfortable with the idea of being with a female psychiatrist?

[Digitaldisorder]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

 

[Him15]

No not uncomfortable at all, actually pretty cool and a very interesting profession. If you are scared about someone's job then you are just insecure in yourself.

 

[ThickMike222]

It's probably not your profession that intimidates your dates.
I think your intelligence and will to succeed intimidates them and your profession is proof of those things.

 

[joeyusa]

Good topic

I'm a 39yo male - think I would prefer to be with a female psychiatrist if the need ever arose.

 

[turok20]

that does not bother me either, im sure there is something about you job that turns guys away, like you might try to get them to talk about their issues or something, me personaly if i met a woman like that i could date and discuss my issues with to help me, why not lol

 

[monoblanco]

Yeah.
It's probably not so much your profession as the insecurities and/or egos of the men in question. Maybe they're worried you'll treat them like a client?

A lot of guys are intimidated by intelligent, successful women and if they think you're going to be analyzing their motivations and asking about their mother, all the more so.

Either that, or you should stop dating men with psychotic disorders

 

[KinkyBoyUK]

It's probably not your profession that intimidates your dates.
I think your intelligence and will to succeed intimidates them and your profession is proof of those things.

I think Mike is completely right, and if anyone is intimidated rather than excited and intrigued by your intelligence then they don't deserve you.

 

[cliteatingman]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

There have been several shrinks I wanted to fuck. You could be one too!

 

[tinwalker]

I've found the profession can make a lot of people can be uncomfortable. I suspect it's largely due to the belief that psychiatrists and psychologists can manipulate people into doing things, and I doubt the popularization of Freud's "heads I win, tails you lose," school doesn't help matters.

It eases up when people realize a psychologist can't actually change the way someone thinks; they can only show them other ways of thinking of things.

There's also not a particular delineation between psychologists, and psychiatrists. There's a perception that if one isn't behaving in a prescribed manner, a mental health practitioner can essentially call for someone to be drugged into expected behavior.

It isn't fair, but there have been enough cases of restrictive societies doing that, and enough vocal individuals calling for that sort of thing, that that fear is riding in the back of a lot of peoples' minds.

People fear losing control, and their minds are their final inner sanctum that they fear losing control of most of all. There are both enough misconceptions about the limits of modern mental health, and enough people that think controlling other peoples' minds is a really good idea, that those who work in mental health has a special dual burden of educating people about the limits of the art, and the ethics of it.

 

[BenevolentDCC]

Love!

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

I looooooove Psychiatry! So sexy! Why are they afraid of you?! That's crazy!!!

 

[Ask For More]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

I don't have any experience with dating a psychiatrist so I can't offer much insight from the male perspective.

On the flip side, I have a minor counselling qualification. The last women I dated was incredibly intelligent and worldly - and yet she felt that I was smarter than her. However, I think she felt that way because I am very good at reading situations and people due to my training, so in a sense she always felt like she was a step behind me. It didn't put a strain on our relationship at all, she respected me for the way I responded to people and to her. She was a little intimidated by it at first though.

 

[R_Hughes1905]

I think some men would be afraid a psychiatrist would be able to read into them too easily, discern their motives, personalty traits and flaws and generally feel naked. Me? I think it'd be challenging and exciting. Plus, I wouldn't mind bouncing questions and theories off a professional.

I base that on my own experience, while I'm not a psychiatrist... I'm very good at reading people, figuring them out and what their motives are. It annoys the hell out of my friends, and some women don't like it when a man can see right through them. It scares them away sometimes.

 

[Lone_Wanderer]

To address your question, I think you need to look at the root of the issue, which is where psychiatrists tend to do their best work.

For some, it could be ego. The fact that you are trained in looking past what men tend to do quite frequently; conceal insecurities through the "tough" attitudes and scowls. You can read a lot by the little that is said, and more that is unsaid (through words or the facial or postural expressions) of people.

For me, I think I would be concerned with crossing boundaries, when thoughts and impulses would move into areas that would not be feasible given the nature of the relationship.

That's coming from someone who probably needs counseling to deal with my solitary issues...

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Does she have nice tits and cock sucking lips? I'd be OK with it then....

In all honesty, of course I'd be fine with it...I would be going to get help - who I got it from would be of non-importance....

 

[reallyunsure]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

The men this is scaring off, you're better off without.

I say this as someone who's been involved with multiple therapists, though technically never a psychiatrist.

 

[basic_desires]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

I can't see why it should, unless you were constantly trying to apply your work habits, standards, expectations etc to me or our relationship, if we were entering into one. I find that kind of work very interesting. Whatever you do in your working life has really nothing to do with your personal life

 

[dfw713]

Personally I find intelligence very attractive. I also like the professional woman to be more stable and a much better match overall.

 

[Steve5511]

Oh wow.... You are the star of one of my fantasies..... so yes, very comfortable!

 

[NewYorkerotic]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

I like intelligent women, so I would not have a problem with a woman of your profession provided she didn't view me merely as a subject. On the contrary, I might see her as a intellectual challenge -- something I might enjoy even if it would lead to nothing more than a spirited exchange of views.

As for the "psychotic" people you treat professionally, that might not be the best pool to dip into for a potential mate, unless you are willing to hide the belts and cutlery before bedtime.

 

[cca_man]

I'm not surprised that it scares people off. A lot of people believe that you'll use it to "get in their head", etc. Usually, the people who can't handle this are usually rife with insecurities about various other subjects.

 

[YoungToy]

Not at all. Someone I could love, have sex with, and also have her legally be unable to reveal my secrets under certain circumstances sounds divine.

 

[IamLittle69]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

May I lie on your couch?

 

[Harold_Hill]

Just for exploration purposes. I need your insight.

I'm a female psychiatrist, and have found that my profession scares men away. It's a total turn off. Makes it difficult to meet people. To clarifiy, I am not at all a psychoanalyst, or psychodynamic therapist, or any of that, I'm a community psychiatrist who treats people with psychotic disorders.

Would that make you uncomfortable? Whatever your answer, please explain, and please be honest.

It isn't just being a psychiatrist, in general professional women intimidate men. Or as you put it, scare them away. If you feel that you are intimidating men you are attracted to, you might want to limit yourself to men who are in the same professional/economic social strata as yourself. Professional men are not usually intimidated by professional women. If you are primarily dating men whom you consider to be in your same professional/economic social strata, and you feel they are intimidated by your profession, you might want to look at other aspects of your personality/persona, it may not be your profession that is turning them off.

 

[Nsafun1984]

I prefer women in the medical profession based upon "I" personally find them to be more soothing and comforting, I am more open to sharing thoughts and feelings with a female rather than a male. short and sweet really

 

[wrterlogan]

I think it more or less has to do with the psychotic disorders part of the equation. We still live in a time where there is a large social stigma against having this type of disorder. While I'm sure that everyone appreciates the work that you do, they might be concerned about having to hear about some bizarre aspect of a particular therapy (not that I believe you would do this but more or less might have to do with expectations). People shy away from what scares them and psychosis is certainly something that worries a lot of people.