ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the residuals of the experience: the images applicants have of the range of alternative sources of help. It shows what types of professionals are more instituted than others–which are more firmly anchored in real choices. The chapter discusses which professions applicants thought best as well as the social characteristics of those who made various types of choices. It explains some which show how professions are related to each other, and shows how these pictures affect the choice of clinic. The cultists, mass media advice columns, legal services, religious healers, chiropractors and bartenders round out the list with popularities running from about 2 to 10 per cent of clinic applicants. Psychiatry is seen as much more expressive–and this too matched previous detailed interviews on expectations concerning psychiatrists by applicants to the Religion and Psychiatry Institute. The chief difference between religio- and analytic-psychiatric clinic applicants, then, concerns the role of counseling, the clergy, and psychiatry.
