I am sitting in a graduate-level clinical science seminar at a public university in Southern California. The professor has a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from a prestigious university. It is our third week of class and we are learning about clinical research methods. I am working on a master’s degree in psychological research and learn in this class how thoroughly disturbed I am by this discipline.
The professor is describing a research project she conducted during her doctoral training that led to numerous follow-up studies and remains one of her primary ongoing…
