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NEWS > HEALTH > LICENSED THERAPIST CAT FINDING FEW PATIENTS
LICENSED THERAPIST CAT FINDING FEW PATIENTS
February 8 2011
Newark, DE – There are many mysteries in the human mind, things that despite all our advances in science and health still baffle ordinary people and researchers. Things such as emotion, the sense of self, or malignant behaviour are all still very much 
mysteries to science despite years of research and experience. While it is certainly possible that the human mind is beyond our comprehension for the long term, the complexities and expressions impacts our day-to-day lives and so we look ever forward to resolve our issues.
The human mind though is not the only brain on the planet. While few would debate that it is the most sophisticated of all the brains on the planet, research has shown incredible and surprising levels of complexity in other animals, exhibiting behaviour such as love and the mourning of the deceased, that was once thought to be the exclusive domain of human beings. That diversity of experience and of mental capacity perhaps shows how uncomplicated the human brain may truly be, yet so many aspects of the human experience are still exclusively ours, totally foreign to other species of life. However in investigating the minds of other animals we may in fact find a path to resolving our own complexity, something that one researcher is determined to do after securing numerous psychotherapy certifications for his cat, Zoe D. Katz.
“In 2002 as an experiment I applied for and obtained a variety of credentials on Zoe's behalf. To get her certified as a hypnotherapist by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), the International Medical & Dentistry Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA) and the American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH) I only had to fill out online applications and pay the application fee,” wrote Dr. Steve Eichel, Ph.D. “Obviously this began as an experiment. No feline has ever been officially approved for these credentials previously but once it became clear that it could happen, the experiment took on a different tact altogether.”
The cat also received board certification from the American Psychotherapy Association.
“I had heard of this experiment and at first glance it is a little insulting to the 
profession but it also highlights some intrinsic flaws in certification as well as focus.
Certainly no other medical field would allow a cat to become licensed and that shows the system that is in place is at least slightly flawed. However the bigger concern may very well be the focus on driving a cat to become a household earner, something few people would say is a good idea,” said Scrape TV Psychology analyst Dr. Sarah Welp. “Driving pets that hard is not only bad for the animal, but also possibly traumatizing to the family. Keep in mind that the earning potential of animals is very poor, particularly in a field that requires things such as speech and real life experience and a reliance on earnings from that, especially if it were to become widespread, could cause serious personal problems for the people involved.”
It’s not clear if Katz has started a practice or actually consulted any patients.
“There is also a concern about the novelty factor. People would naturally be drawn to something like this but the type of advice they would receive would be extremely limited. There isn’t a whole lot that people and cats have in common unfortunately and much of a cat’s advice would be from that world,” continued Welp. “I think this is at best cavalier and at worst dangerous. We simply should not be allowing animals in these types of delicate positions where they have real power over the hearts and minds of people. There are some jobs that should still be left to humans.”
Katz has apparently had trouble since gaining the degrees, suffering from a sever catnip addiction.
Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
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