Psychology is the cornerstone in the life of any person and it is on it that his success, effectiveness and efficiency in all areas of his life depend. Let's find out what role psychology plays in human life and why it needs to be studied!
- Why do you need knowledge of psychology? Relationships with people
- Solving psychological problems
- Self-development and personal growth
- Efficiency and pleasure
- Health
- Making decisions
Psychology in the life of modern man
Currently, a person is faced with a huge number of problems and questions. How a person behaves when solving them is explained by psychology. Each inhabitant of the planet is individual, and therefore it is simply unrealistic to provide for all possible options. This suggests that today it is very difficult to be in modern society without basic psychological knowledge. After all, each of us is in direct contact with others, whose behavior and mood are extremely unstable.
The role of psychology is extremely important in times of new technologies and progress. Modern psychology helps a person solve vital problems. Today, for many people, psychology has become a vital need. It helps a person to realize himself, develop as an individual, and help other people. A good modern psychologist, with the help of psychological training, analysis, and various methods, does not allow a person to stand still.
People who still have doubts about the important role psychology plays in their lives should think about what would happen if social psychology were absent, if the technique of business dialogue did not exist. If this were so, then a person would not understand the meaning of the words “society”, “public”, and many others. Therefore, modern psychology provides vitally necessary knowledge.
Thanks to such knowledge, any person can easily adapt to new conditions, which were previously an incomprehensible mystery to him. He will be able to adapt to them correctly and his psyche will not suffer. It is difficult today to overestimate the role of this knowledge in the life of a modern person. Therefore, the life of modern society today is impossible without psychology. It is important that everyone understands this in time and takes appropriate measures.
There is no other science in the world today that could study a person like psychology. The most important thing in the life of any person is success, joy, happiness, peace of mind. This all develops only psychologically. A person who does not know this will not begin to study himself. After all, modern psychology is not only the study of others, but also of oneself. Once you study yourself, you can easily study those around you.
The benefit of psychology today is that most people in modern times need help, and, oddly enough, precisely psychological help. After all, only it helps a person create a happy, successful, material world by changing habits and ways of thinking. Feel free to study psychology and seek help from professionals.
Practical psychology: main directions
In modern practical psychology there is no unified system of knowledge. Instead, there are various directions, schools and methods of work that allow one to achieve good results in each specific case, depending on the characteristics of a person’s individual development. Today we can highlight the most famous schools and directions:
— art therapy;
- psychoanalysis;
— refrigeration;
— transactional analysis;
- Gestalt therapy;
- psychosynthesis.
All these schools and areas specialize in the study of deviations from the norm and bringing human behavior to the norm. However, there are also educational and developmental schools that deal with so-called personal growth and opportunities to rise above the so-called norm. Among these schools, the most popular are:
— socionics;
- synthon;
— NLP (neuro-linguistic programming);
— Lifespring.
Deviation from accepted standards
Not all areas of modern psychology are considered recognized or fully studied. Many still do not want to be recognized as scientists, or remain an unexplored area for those who want to unravel the mystery of telepathy and clairvoyance.
Parapsychology - what kind of science is it and what tasks does it set for itself? Not universally recognized science deals with the study of paranormal phenomena, phenomena, and unexplained facts. Types of forms of paranormal sensitivity are expressed in the form of telepathy (mental communication between people), clairvoyance (receiving data through inexplicable flows of information from the outside through the senses), precognition (a type of clairvoyance based on predicting the future). They also study dowsing (search using a curved metal wire), psychokinesis (influencing surrounding objects with the help of thoughts), paramedicine (the study of inexplicable methods of treatment).
Does all of the above areas of parapsychology have something in common? What could it be? That they are mysterious, mysterious and too far from generally accepted reality.
In Europe, back in 1882, the organization “Society for the Study of Psychical Phenomena” was created in London, and by the 30s of the 20th century there were more than 240 laboratories in 30 countries. The debunking of parapsychologists' hypotheses further instilled confidence in followers who were looking for evidence of their theories.
Over time, thanks to the contributions of engineers and physicists, it was established that the human brain is associated with scientific physical processes, and accordingly, some of the phenomena studied began to be determined by traditional research methods. Inexplicability and incorrectness in terms of methodology cause distrust from the outside, but parapsychological phenomena exist and require a scientific psychological and physical explanation, which is what parapsychologists do in scientific institutions.
What does psychology look at?
It examines the general laws of mental processes and provides a psychological description of human activity and personality. General psychology sets out the psychological laws of sensations, perceptions, ideas, thinking and speech, creativity, skills, habits and many other interests and abilities of a person in their inextricable unity with social content and physiological mechanisms. Many famous scientists and psychologists became interested in the need to study the laws of mental phenomena under special conditions of a particular type of activity. This may be education and training, creativity or other conditions of social activity. These questions are private tasks of psychology and are carried out by separate branches of psychology
.
The difference between practical psychology and applied psychology
Practical psychology,
in contrast to applied, which works exclusively within the framework of scientific research, relies on well-established working metaphors that have no scientific basis. In other words, if applied psychology is aimed primarily at specialists, then practical psychology is aimed at the general public who do not have special education. That’s why their languages are different: applied language is scientific, full of professional terms, practical language is accessible, typical for everyday communication.
A striking example is the Parent-Adult-Child metaphor, which was introduced by Eric Berne. Despite the lack of scientific basis, this metaphor is of great benefit in psychotherapeutic work and psychological counseling.
The difference between practical psychology and popular psychology
Popular psychology provides a wide range of the population with fundamental and practical knowledge in a simplified form, without the use of professional terminology. Therefore, you can simply read it for fun, without any specific purpose. Practical psychology
is focused primarily on specific needs of people, and contains answers to most pressing questions related to all spheres of human life. Therefore, it is in demand, first of all, by those readers who are looking for an answer to specific questions that interest them: how to change their life, how to change their emotions, their character, some kind of life situation.
Principles of Psychological Science
It is customary to highlight the following principles of modern psychology:
- determinism;
- unity of consciousness and activity;
- mental development;
- survey (open/closed);
- conversation method;
- interview method;
- expert assessments.
The principles of the science under consideration are provisions that can determine the understanding of the human psyche, how it was formed, what its system of functioning and forms of manifestation are.
Many sciences, such as philosophy and physiology, sociology and political science, economics and aesthetics, contributed to the development of principles. Everything works in collaboration. At one time, the Soviet psychologist A. N. Leontyev made a comparison using this example: food entering the stomach is determined by social circumstances, and the digestion process is part of the law of physiology.
Degradation of society
We see how society is degrading, people strive for temporary benefits, relationships today play the role of mutual benefit. The family is no longer the main goal of a person, this can be seen from the divorce statistics. People no longer try and do not strive to restore families; children’s still unsettled psychology suffers from this. There is simply a huge gap in the relationship between children and parents, parents have forgotten about raising their children, and children live according to the rules of the street. And the street today provides alcohol, tobacco, drugs, a carefree life in terms of “I don’t want, I won’t.”
The reason for the decline and degradation of society was the universal desire for wealth at any cost, the desire to be first at the expense of relationships, the desire for enrichment, recognition, and power.
How to change the situation for the better?
Today's society, which strives to change the situation for the better, to improve the inner world of a person, finds a huge variety of activities that lead out of the so-called hopeless situation.
If we notice, a large number of stars are involved in charity work, volunteering, helping large families, solving health problems in third world countries, also trying to fight hunger in African countries, and much more. The main goal is to gain satisfaction by helping others, they help themselves, the feeling of a person’s need gives us the acquisition of those feelings that we have not experienced before.
This is victory - awareness of the problems of others, gives an undeniable result in understanding one’s problems, helps in solving the problems of other people, provides an opportunity and a way out to solve one’s life difficulties and troubles.
Today we need to care most not about tomorrow, but about our inner state, about a successful and happy family, prosperity will only come when your inner world is organic with the outer world, only such idealization can make you a fully happy and infinitely resilient person in our modern society .
Where is practical psychology applied?
The most successful applications of practical psychology in everyday life can be seen in the work of politicians, doctors, managers, teachers, priests, etc. That is, that category of people who, in the process of communication, have to influence other people. It should be noted that the knowledge about human psychology that they actively use, as a rule, was obtained by them solely on the basis of life experience. The same knowledge is used by those people who, without special psychological education, try to provide or provide help to other people (for example, traditional healers, psychics, etc.).
Thus, practical psychology is a fairly effective way not only to solve problems, but also to improve and develop one’s personality, based on personal experience and real results of people who practice in this area and pass on their knowledge to others.
