Any thinking and observant person will have relevant and likely interesting things to say on the following topics, if for no other reason than that theirs is the only perspective of its kind in the universe. 

No one can reasonably be expected to make non random successful predictions in the realm of human behavior unless the equation can be spared down considerably. However, anyone can consider the implications of that which they think, observe, experience, read, learn, etc. and then offer the result of those for consideration.  

I am a retired clinical social worker with over a third of a century of work in the field of psychiatry working on behalf of clients of all ages and health issues, on three continents and many states.

 I’ve done much clinical work with groups, kids, teens, adults, families, etc., including consultation, substance abuse, psychiatric mental health, and related fields.

I have worked in both the clinical and administrative arenas, managing hospital psychiatric unit service, as well as clinical dept. services to American soldiers and their families in Germany, Japan, and the United States, while providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services.

I have done much group work, presented on the dynamics and function of group psychotherapeutic approaches, and advised as well as led child, student, parent, and family groups and organizations.

I am also a member of Mensa and Intertel, which says little other than that I have a nice number after the I.Q. (See “ on intelligence” below for some brief discussion of that).

  However, I would not call myself an expert as I would not call any of my colleagues in the field  an expert. You can only be an expert in a field where the number of variables in a particular equation are identifiable and controllable. However, with human beings, the variables involved are constantly changing. We can only control for the variables that we can identify and these are constantly in flux. If an expert is someone who can consistently make significantly above random chance percentage predictions of behavior, then we in the field of the study of members of the human species are not experts. 

It is my fervent hope that humankind will continue to “ let their reach exceed their grasp “ such that we may not fall short of what is possible, as we push to evolve ever better, ever stronger, ever wiser – at least personally and organizationally, if not as a species. For, if we do so, perhaps that evolutionary aspect of our species will be selected for as well, if we can but hang around long enough for it to do so.

W. A. Kueck