What is
Psychology?
Psychology is the study of
the mind and behaviour. Its immediate goal is*yawn* to understand
individuals and *BIG yawn* groups by both establishing general principles
and researching *snore….*.
Psychology has always interested me. No seriously, I’m not
being contemptuous or sarcastic. As for my reaction to the above lines, I’ll
explain that later, But yes, psychology.
I’ll lay it out clear and simple. I honestly do not see it as
an individual subject. Psychology is… how to define it, it’s like reading;
reading other people and yourself. How the eyes of a person close to you betray
when he/she’s actually faking a laugh to hide something, how a particular
behaviour on part of a person actually might hide a deep-rooted insecurity and how
a seemingly insignificant reaction on someone’s part betrays something of
colossal importance (and how you later realize that most of what they said on
the show “Lie to Me” was basically nonsense). At a certain level, it is
essential for a sound social life. Unless you are one of those reclusive
millionaires raking in the dough by sitting at home and typing a couple million
words worth of humanely undecipherable text per day on your laptop. In that
case, you’re doing it perfectly fine. Say hi to your imaginary girlfriend from
me.
You know what psychologist do for the 200$ an hour therapy?
They ask you incredibly obvious questions that you ought to be asking yourself;
and when they aren’t doing that, they ask you questions whose unpredictability
and relevance borders on stupidity. When
asked to comment on this, a budding psychologist from our esteemed school
replied, “Why?”
YOU SEE?
Allow me to
explain my very first lines now. Covering the school’s psychology week event,
mosaic, I glimpsed through their quiz question. Knowing myself to be adept at
reading people (no false modesty here), It was… annoying how everything was
about mugging up the various whacko terminology and spewing it out. When the
human BRAIN is not constant, how can the therapy for it be? If every person is
different, why is their psychological evaluation based upon the studies and
theories, and more (un)importantly, perceptions of some ancient shrinks who
believed they understood the human behaviour more than anyone ever did and ever
could? Psychology’s supposed to be an art, how you slip in through the patient’s
denial and defence and make him/her realize what he/she’s doing wrong. Actually,
the way I am, they’ve probably got terms in psychology that I could be an
epitome of, namely attention deficit disorder, ADHD, and a major dollop of self-obsession;
but the way we’re learning it as a subject, it’s only got three phases. Yawn,
BIG yawn, and Snore.
