Thin Blue Mind / Smokey Heroes
Police Psychology | Apocalypse or Utopia: You Decide
by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP
I have learned a lot in my sixty years about the intricacies of the human mind. I have learned about intelligence, about federal politics and the criminal mind. I have learned a lot about women, and especially when to keep my mouth shut. I am learning much more about children first hand, although I had a good handle on them before. And, I am also learning first-hand about aging and the process of going toward the “finish line of life.” But, I have never learned how to predict the future.
I will confess, I did not like Hillary Clinton. I have talked to a lot of federal agents, secret service and the like, who were around her from her husband’s presidency on, and they were not flattering at all to her. Him yes, her no. I also don’t like the refugee situation she wanted to create, the destruction of evidence, the confiscated FBI files from when her husband was president, among other things. On the other side, a close friend of mine did business with Donald Trump, and he was told point blank that he wasn’t getting what he was promised for work already done, for no other reason than Trump was cutting corners. Trump’s brash, emotionally responsive, and unfiltered, and he says things that are just off. He takes politically incorrect to a whole new level, and although I am far from politically correct, I am not as extreme. Besides, I am mellowing with age. What a choice, but the process is over and we go through an inauguration this week, one that is guaranteed to make some happy and others disgusted. But, all said, I still can’t predict the future. What I can predict is we voted for change, and we are likely to get it. (more…)
Many don’t find a serene “nap” on their schedule, in fact many “just want to get through it.” Get through the holidays is the major sentiment that a psychologist sees in his office from mothers, and fathers, and cops and most people out there. They often don’t let each other know in social relationships, but they sure do say it a lot in to a psychologist, even when we don’t ask. I just want to get through this damn holiday season without “going broke,” “without ringing someone’s neck,” “without getting a divorce,” “without killing my kids…” “Maybe I’ll just work Christmas and Christmas Eve.” The joys of the holidays!!