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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)
A small perverse otter:
There are two different issues here: one, whether Evie is practicing psychotherapy without a license, and, two, what she intends to do with conversation.
Point one is completely unsupportable. She has not presented herself as a therapist. Right now, this is nothing more than a conversation -- a very creepy conversation, yes, but only a conversation, all the same.
Point two is a completely different kettle of mush. Evie has emphatically *not* provided Faye with any opportunity to give informed consent to be an experimental subject. She has even more emphatically gotten no kind of consent from Bubbles. If she's using this interview to inform her dissertation, she's way, way, way over the line. If she uses this interview and her IRB learns about its context, then she absolutely is in a boatload of trouble.
ChipNoir:
New comic!
And Evie proves she knows where the line is....somewhere at least.
poofdepoof:
I love the rainbow that she makes with her hands as she gestures the word "spectrum." It's such good webcomic artistry. :) Good job, Jeph!
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Case on 25 Jan 2018, 18:24 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Jan 2018, 16:12 ---The Pugnacious Peach has not given permission to be made self-aware.
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Neither does Evie have any way of knowing whether Faye can deal with what she (potentially) learns about herself (or has even tried to get Faye's measure in that respect, as far as we know).
No, none of her behaviour is "bad", or a clearcut "wrong" per se, it just strikes me as ... careless and lacking in respect for Faye's personhood and the seriousness of the task of assisting another with their insights into their own mind. And I share Castlerook's hunch that it seems as least as much about self-gratification as it is about helping Faye.
IDK, maybe it's just down to different upbringing, or cultural differences or whatever.
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I do see what you mean about lacking respect. Today's comic shows that it's going in a different direction, but if she *had* been trying to force revelation out of Faye, I agree that would have been surprisingly intense pressure on her part, to say the least. It would still have been ultimately Faye's decision as to whether her own comfort zone was exceeded, as it was before, but I'd certainly become uncomfortable in her shoes.
As it stands, it looks like the dramatic payoff is being deferred at least until Monday.
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(*twitches*)
War Sparrow:
Evie seems to be studying research psych, not clinical. She certainly isn't a Psychiatric student- that's a whole different ball game, at least in Canada. She isn't qualified to do analysis on a professional scale; which is great, because she's not doing that. She's asking vaguely invasive questions of her girlfriend's sister.
And this anecdotal adventure with Faye couldn't be used in her course work, because it isn't a professional experiment and can't be cited. I never reached grad student, but even my entry level classes would never accept a discussion over dinner as evidence. Evie's just interested because this is her field.
Perhaps it's because I have a giant, nosy family who tend to date nosy people, so I'm rockin' a cultural bias here, but Evie isn't doing anything here I'm a stranger to.
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