He was arrogant, insensitive and seemed totally unaffected by my grief and confusion

I saw a very old film recently, titled Sybil, an amazing story about a girl with multiple personalities, brilliantly acted by Sally Field.  But it was the psychiatrist acted by Joanne Woodward that really got my attention.  I'm half way through a degree in social science and am interested in the different ways that health care professionals work.  I plan to be a counsellor/psychotherapist myself eventually.  One of the reasons I chose this career path is connected to my mum's death when I was 15.  She was seeing a psychiatrist for depression, amongst other things, and I suspected that she may have had something to do with her own passing.  I saw her psychiatrist to try and get some clues as to what happened, but meeting him only made things worse.  He was arrogant, insensitive and seemed totally unaffected by my grief and confusion - everything the doctor in the film was not. 

We are influenced by 'bad' experiences as well as 'good' ones.  It is not so much experiences themselves that determine how we are influenced but rather how we respond to them.  My mum's psychiatrist upset me so much, it motivated me to counter his attitude by being different.  I want to be like Sybil's doctor in the film, who was compassionate, competent and 'available'.  She truly helped Sybil, and I believe it was mainly because of the way she engaged on a personal level.  I want the opportunity to help people like my mum turn their lives around.  Afterall, isn't this what the 'helping' profession is meant to be about?