DEAR GOD I LOVE THIS MOVIE
it’s funny how people hear the word “forensics” and think “serial killers” and “blood”
sorry to burst your bubble, but you’re 95% wrong.
“forensics” only means any discipline that intersects with the law. the law and physics, the law and chemistry, the law and psychology, the law and psychiatry.
anytime i tell someone i’m studying forensic psychology, i get “oh cool! you’re gonna be a profiler!”
nope.
only a very small percentage of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists are profilers. profiling is also a fairly shaky science.
forensic psychology and psychiatry involves being an expert witness, competency to stand trial evaluations, political asylum evaluations, violence/sex offending/risk assessment, probation, parole, IQ and personality testing, civil and criminal law consultation, litigation consulting, and lots of other stuff.
yeah, it’s super cool. but it’s not profiling, and it’s not dealing with blood or crime scenes or anything else. it’s a desk job. you sit at your desk and write reports- 70 page reports- on a regular basis. unless you’re the shit, you don’t talk to serial killers, and rarely even real killers. you don’t see crime scene photos, you don’t sit across from someone in their cell, behind bullet-proof glass, waiting for another inmate to fling semen on you. 9 times out of 10 we have no idea what happens to our clients/patients after we have completed our evaluations or interventions.
and that’s only after we’ve spent 2-6 years and thousands of dollars to get our Master’s or PhD’s.
and after we get our Master’s or PhD’s, we still have an additional 2-3 years to do our version of residency. we’re the bitch at an agency, earn $12/hr (with our M.A.’s or PhD’s) and cross our fingers that we can defer our student loans just a few more months.
… just an fyi. get educated before you open your mouth.
