Psych Out

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.