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Derek Truscott

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I earned my doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Windsor, and practiced in hospital, community, group home, rehabilitation, and private settings before entering academia. I am currently professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.

I am interested in answering the question of what it takes to be a good psychologist. By “good” I mean one who is effective, helpful, influential, and impactful – who is sought out by people suffering from personal problems and to whom other psychologists refer or seek out themselves. I also mean “good” in the sense of one who is ethical, principled, virtuous, and moral – who knows how to do and does the right thing and is sought out by others wanting to do likewise.

It often seems to me that
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“The certainty of our answers is inversely proportional to the importance of our questions.”
Derek Truscott

“Years of teaching had left him with that firm and didactic tone of someone used to being heard, but not certain of being listened to.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The certainty of our answers is inversely proportional to the importance of our questions.”
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