I have at least three website listings that I am personally involved in constructing. One is at Theravive.com. I’m not in charge of the format there, but I use their facilities as best I can. Another is at https://sussmanpsychological.business.site (this is my Google Business website.) And finally, of course, there is this one. If you seek accurate information about me as a professional on the web, these are the places to find it. I’m pretty open about who I am and what I do.
In my line of work I am professionally and ethically committed to client confidentiality. I do not seek (in fact, where I can, I prohibit) client endorsement or criticism. In the case of criticism, I am powerless to reply because of concerns over confidentiality. In the case of endorsements, any educated person is likely to know that these have absolutely zero scientific value or merit. So, neither endorsement nor criticism is useful. For these reasons I am not a voluntary participant, and am in fact completely uninvolved in the workings where any website solicits endorsements or critical comments from clients.
The working header for this piece of blogwork (Who am I Really?) sounds like an existential question, because it is. I’m musing right now on what happens when my name is entered into a search engine. As far as I know, I’m the only Dr. Paul S. Sussman in Edmonton. Yet what appears in the search results is that I’m an occupational therapist as well. Also, some websites seem to have (I hope automatically) extracted from mine a set of inaccurate characteristics regarding my work as a therapist, specifically with respect to specializations and such. I guess this is an example of the workings of what people call “artificial intelligence.”
I have it to my credit that, decades ago while I was a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University, I opined to several witnesses that artificial stupidity would come to progress much more rapidly than would artificial intelligence. This is so because while computers can make stupid decisions on their own (and at a mind-boggling rate of speed,) a good programmer must specify in detail intelligent operations for any computer to be able to make them. I think my statements back then have proven almost prophetic.
If you want more information than is available on the sites to which I contribute, you can always call me on the telephone. Talk a while. See how that goes.
Direct contact: what a concept!
Warmth and light to you.