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Clinical Psychology - I'm Not an Expert in Clinical Psychology
One of the issues that underlies my work in connection with clinical psychology is I try to stick to so-called subclinical levels. So when we get into sexual sadism and criminal sadism, which in a sense was all people associated with sadism up until recently, it was the only way that people thought about it. And interesting interplays between sadism and masochism, why would it be to some extent the same people who are into both? It's not as if the clinicians have been any more careful than the personality theorists in elucidating the actual nature of their diagnostic categories. We can ask these questions in surveys but I hesitate to try to be an expert and accept