Oh, I agree. Everyone should study psychology, but not so they can influence others, which it is none of their business to do in the first place, but to protect their minds from being warped by the academic pseudo-science of psychology, second only to philosophy and religion as a source of wrong ideas. You missed one of the worst forms of psychobable promoted today, # 6. evolutionary psychology.jayjacobus wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:25 pm Writers on this forum should understand psychology so that they can influence people effectively.
Here are some schools of psychology that should be understood:
1. Behavior psychology focus on the stimulus-response behaviors. According to this theory, all behaviors are learned through interactions with the environment including human interaction. Influencing people’s behavior comes natural to parents, leaders and marketing professionals. Studying behavior theories can improve results.
2. Psychodynamic psychology focuses on subconscious drivers like the ID, ego and libido. Teaching people how to manage these drivers will give them more control over their thoughts and behaviors.
3. Humanist psychology encourages patients to guide their own therapy by creating a partnership with the psychologist.
4. Biological psychology recognizes that people should protect and enhance their abilities to deal with life.
5. Cognitive psychology focuses on underlying mind sets that can be changed to better deal with problems and opportunities.
In fact you missed a whole passel of psychological quackery, including all these different, "psychologies:" Sigmund Freud's, Anna Freud's, Erik Erikson's, Jean Piaget's, John B. Watson's, B.F. Skinner's, Carl Rogers', and Abraham Maslow's, for example. No real science consists of endless hypotheses that all disagree with each other.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the history of psychology, beginning with Wundt, who confused physiological (neurological behavior) with consciousness. Then followed the train of hucksters that cashed-in on the big lie that someone's testimony was studying their, "psyche," or, "consciousness," including G. Stanley Hall, (founder of the American Journal of Psychology) John Dewey, William James, Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm (Frankfurt School cultural Marxists), Benjamin Bloom, Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado, Dr. John Rawlings Rees, and Edward Thorndike (very appropriately, a eugenicist).
If you've read and studied these founders and promoters of psychology you know each and every one is a total crackpot, most with social/political agendas who have done irreparable harm to everything they have influenced. All of psychology is like the, "Bible of Psychology," itself, the, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), which all psychologists depend on for their, "diagnosis," of so-called mental diseases. The DSM, consists entirely of, "disorders," and, "diseases," invented by psychologists submitted for inclusion in each revised version of the manual, (the latest is the fifth), entirely without any research or evidence and determined solely by a vote of the psychologists involved. And that's put over as science.
Yes, you should certainly study psychology. Only those who are directly involved in that industry or those who have not really studied it are not taken in by the fraud.