RhythmSpring
Esteemed member
Dear Nexus Abby,
I was doing some work for a family friend--editing word documents. She had me edit/format a syllabus for a course she'll be teaching this Summer, on helping people process grief over the loss of loved ones.
In one of the sections, there was a bullet point list of topics to go over:
• Psychological theories of grief and bereavement
• Psychodynamic theories of grief and bereavement
• Constructivist theories of grief and bereavement
• The transformative nature of grief
• Continuing bonds
• Psychedelic therapy for grief and bereavement
• Differences between normal and complicated grief
• Controversies about the diagnosis of complicated grief.
Being the badass tool that I am, I myself inserted "Psychedelic therapy for grief and bereavement" on a whim, telling myself that I'd delete it later, and, that if I forgot to delete it, it was meant to be.
Of course, I submitted it, forgetting remove my creative addition.
The professor/psychotherapist is a really sweet woman in her 60s and is not a stranger to psychedelic culture, though she strikes me as a person not to have dabbled much.
What should I do? Should I own up, take the embarrassment, and have her remove it?
Or should I let it be (she hasn't noticed yet), and let one of her students notice it and bring it to her attention? I think it could spark some interesting discussion or thought trains or research sprees both in the students and the professor that would not have otherwise occurred.
It's a decision between business as usual and hoping for a little academic vandalism to spark some productive thought.
Looking back, I realize that I did this because I thought it easier and more effective than bringing it up in conversation. Though she is sweet, I don't think her mind is open enough at this point to consider mentioning it in the classroom or even doing some research on it on her own.
Sincerely,
Guilty in Alabama
(not in Alabama)
I was doing some work for a family friend--editing word documents. She had me edit/format a syllabus for a course she'll be teaching this Summer, on helping people process grief over the loss of loved ones.
In one of the sections, there was a bullet point list of topics to go over:
• Psychological theories of grief and bereavement
• Psychodynamic theories of grief and bereavement
• Constructivist theories of grief and bereavement
• The transformative nature of grief
• Continuing bonds
• Psychedelic therapy for grief and bereavement
• Differences between normal and complicated grief
• Controversies about the diagnosis of complicated grief.
Being the badass tool that I am, I myself inserted "Psychedelic therapy for grief and bereavement" on a whim, telling myself that I'd delete it later, and, that if I forgot to delete it, it was meant to be.
Of course, I submitted it, forgetting remove my creative addition.
The professor/psychotherapist is a really sweet woman in her 60s and is not a stranger to psychedelic culture, though she strikes me as a person not to have dabbled much.
What should I do? Should I own up, take the embarrassment, and have her remove it?
Or should I let it be (she hasn't noticed yet), and let one of her students notice it and bring it to her attention? I think it could spark some interesting discussion or thought trains or research sprees both in the students and the professor that would not have otherwise occurred.
It's a decision between business as usual and hoping for a little academic vandalism to spark some productive thought.
Looking back, I realize that I did this because I thought it easier and more effective than bringing it up in conversation. Though she is sweet, I don't think her mind is open enough at this point to consider mentioning it in the classroom or even doing some research on it on her own.
Sincerely,
Guilty in Alabama
(not in Alabama)
