Has there been or will there ever be a Clinical Psychologist Astronaut?

Question

I'm looking into either psychiatry or clinical psychology, and I've always ahd this dream of becoming an astronaut. is it possible? What has there been in the past?

Answer 1

The first scientific colonisers of Mars will need one or two. You'll have your work cut out for you.

Answer 2

Clinical psychology is about HELPING people who are suffering from neurological disease, right? People who for pretty obvious reasons will not be admitted on a spacecraft. So how would you see your job up there? Treating the mentally sane, physically fit with far above average IQs who are focused 24/7 on the job? Against what?

Having said that, there is no reason why you can't become an astronaut. But you might want to pursue an engineering discipline AND a science discipline rather than psychology.

The other problem I see is that if your dream is to become an astronaut, you are a pretty self centered person. You have to be because in order to get there, you will have to focus exclusively on YOUR career. I don't see how that squares up with a medical profession that belongs to some of the probably hardest and least lucrative (unless you want to write "self-help books" or treat Hollywood Divas) and requires a serious amount of recognition of the suffering of others.

This is not a personal statement against you. All I am saying is that the personality of a doctor in a psychiatric yard and that of an astronaut are VERY different by definition. If you don't know where you belong, you might not belong in either place.

Answer 3

There may be such a position on any Mars mission, simply because of how stressful such a mission could be. If any astronaut developed mental issues it could present a life threatening danger. However, for the first several missions, I am sure that they would simply screen candidates for mental toughness ahead of time because the limited space and resources couldn't be spared for anyone to be there just as a councilor.

A permanent lunar base would be the most likely destination for such personnel. I would imagine that you would need to be handy in some other field than just psychology alone in order to merit placement within our lifetimes, though.

Answer 4

Well i think in the future maybe.... but being a psychology for the astronaut that is based here on earth is possible.

Answer 5

Probably not. It takes a special kind of
weird person to desire to live like a
sardine for days and weeks at a time.
Now with serious discussions going on
about travel to Mars, one has to figure
that anyone who desires to live in an
aluminum bath tub for 8 or nine months
must be some kind of super isoloationist.

Answer 6

It is possible. In the future, space clinical psychology will be necessary.

Answer 7

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