Question:
Do you think holistic psychology is possible, thoughts?

I am thinking of becoming a clinical psychologist and was thinking I might get more busines by taking on a holistic view. I have been raised in a house hold where holistic medicine is used to cure virtually everything, and psychology very well could be treated the same way. Anyone have any thoughts?

Answer: I've been a patient to about 6 psychologists over the last 35 years and have known many more professionally and socially. I haven't known one who isn't holistic if by that you mean caring about and treating the whole person. I'd also say they are eclectic in their willingness to use any method to help their clients.

You may mean something much more narrow by "holistic", be that homeopathic, New Age, spiritualist, or something else. If you try that as a psychologist you need to be careful. State medical boards are tough on quackery. Of course if you keep yourself detached from the medical professions, you are much freer to try to help people with alternative methods if you want. You can do that some in medicine and psychology, but the standards of practice there are stricter than for someone who doesn't present himself or herself as some kind of doctor.

So it depends what you mean by "holistic".