The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 16, 2023

Doctor Jack and mister Hyde.

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Yeah, Brutus don’t know Jack ✽✽✽✽

So he doesn’t believe he can help anyone?

You know, I am a Freud to say that the little girl is just too Jung to tell her cynical psychologists apart from the happy psychiatrists!

Nor the cynical psychologist.

Didn’t know it was a career, I missed my calling. I’ve already been called clinically psycho.

and I’m a sexygenarian.

An honorary degree.

He could also be a cynical clinical psychologist. I knew a naive young Bible college graduate who thought he could hang out his shingle and do family therapy. One patient, a young married woman, spilled all her woes to him and he believed every word. The things she told about her abusive husband led the young bible college grad turned psychologist to hunt him down and kill him. He should’ve been more cynical to help him separate fact from fiction.

The cynical psychologist probably gets more return clients.

A clinical cynical psychologist?

and with any luck, I won’t know Jack either. ;)

ba dum tss

That’s what I always wanted to be.

I enjoyed this! Word games are my favorite. Puns, malapropisms, semantics, all of it! Thanks!

He could be both? Clinical and cynical!

Must be mine.

Hattie may be right. I’m sure most experienced psychologists have a degree of cynicism.

Actually, they are not mutually exclusive terms in psychology….

Clearasil needed here.

It appears that Hattie forgot to shave this morning!!!

A cynical psychologist tells his patients to get over themselves which is probably what most of them really need to do anyway.

i suspect that a credulous psychologist probably couldn’t stay in business very long…

Of course he is – a good many of his patients still haven’t paid him…

So, he has something in common with Lucy Van Pelt?