Don't think you are a "psychiatrist" just because you can read palms.

"I study psychology."

"Can you guess what I'm thinking now?"

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A few days ago, my high school classmate Wage sent a circle of friends. The picture shows screenshots of two unknown softwares. The screenshot shows that seven or eight people have asked to add him as a friend. He joked, "I'm a little busy recently and I really want to find an assistant ..."

Some students are curious, "What do you do?"

He replied, "The psychiatrist is my part-time job." There is also a "witty" expression attached to it.

Then other students left messages below to express their shock: Wow, Wago, you know this!

Wago majored in mathematics. During his college years, he joined the psychological club of the school and worked as a street vendor in the school.

In his junior year, Wage was in charge of the first "Community Carnival" of the school, and measured the fortune of the horoscope by measuring words and psychology.

After the activity, Wage said: It's not easy to trap people with just a piece of paper and a pen and a few words. It's not easy, and the skill is not overwhelming. Besides, 60% of what I told people is true, and the rest is language art.

This may be Vargo's understanding of psychology. He associated psychology with fortune telling.

Brother Waco is smart, has read many books and has outstanding literary talent. If I say that I will be a great writer one day, I absolutely believe it, but now I just put a name on the Internet and call myself a "psychologist", but I beg to differ.

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It seems that everyone who studies psychology will encounter the above embarrassing problems when chatting with others. When others know that you are studying psychology, they often immediately show an inexplicable expression, whether it is surprise, surprise or disgust, which is probably only known to the parties themselves.

In fact, as early as when I was a psychological idiot, my views on psychology were as pessimistic as most people.

When I was a freshman in high school, my classmates and I were disgusted that "psychology students are perverts."

Well, now I am one of the "perverts".

Anyway, the psychology is not as abnormal as I thought at first. In other words, what you think can solve or treat abnormal conditions are not all abnormal conditions. Even if there is, it is a very small "significant difference" below 0.05% statistically.

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One weekend when I was in college, my friend came to my school to have a Mandarin class. It happened that I was at school, so I showed him around the school.

During this period, he asked me, "What are you studying this semester?"

I replied: "There are abnormal psychology, clinical psychology, personality psychology ..."

Then I told him something as exciting as chicken blood. For example, the teacher sometimes tells bloody cases when giving lectures. Of course, I didn't tell him the specific case, but he still showed disgust after hearing it. "Why are you so abnormal?"

I don't remember how I answered at that time, except that after I explained it to him, he smiled slightly embarrassed.

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Psychology involves many directions and needs to learn a wide range of courses.

Besides the above-mentioned abnormal psychology, clinical psychology and personality psychology, it also includes general psychology, experimental psychology, social psychology, statistical psychology, measurement psychology, management psychology, marketing psychology and human anatomy.

The purpose of studying human anatomy is to fully understand the brain function, so as to better study psychology; The purpose of studying clinical psychology and abnormal psychology is to have a preliminary understanding of symptoms, so as to quickly judge the psychological severity and symptoms of visitors in the future. Some cases told by the teacher in class are just to let us better integrate into the situational awareness and better serve the visitors.

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Another misunderstanding of psychology major by ordinary people is: Can you become a psychologist after studying this major? Is psychology a fortune teller?

Seriously, although our psychology is required to "know a little about astronomy and geography, but little about it", the professional division of this subject is still very clear.

Psychologists want to treat neurosis (such as severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, etc. ), patients with personality disorder and medical-based mental illness. These problems usually need to be treated with some drugs. The treatment place is in the hospital, and the relationship between the therapist and the patient belongs to the doctor-patient relationship.

Therefore, for students majoring in psychology who have no medical foundation but want to learn physiological anatomy, psychological counselors are our job.

Different from psychologists, this position is more about inspiring and sorting out some people with heart problems, so as to help guide them to explore and understand the crux of the problem and solve the root of the problem. The consultation place is in a bright and comfortable consultation room, which belongs to the relationship between consultants and visitors and does not involve any drugs.

As for fortune telling ...

Visitors to psychological counseling don't know what their problems are, and psychological counselors often listen to their stories.

Fortune-telling visitors come with questions, and fortune-tellers mostly tell visitors what will happen in the future, how to avoid it and so on.

So psychologists, counselors and fortune tellers are different.

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So don't ask "Do you know what I'm thinking?"

If you insist on asking, you can only simply answer "I don't know." However, some discerning psychologists can infer your habitual character from micro-expressions.

Don't think that a psychiatrist or counselor can casually.

Because this profession really needs a lot of case time accumulation and solid knowledge reserve to be realized.

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Psychology is an attractive subject. At first glance, it is not attractive, but the more you know about it, the more you are attracted to it. ...

As far as the subject is concerned, it is a measurable and verifiable science, covering statistics, measurement, experiment and advanced mathematics courses (it is said that it was also a big thing before), but it also involves philosophy, biology, astronomy and so on, so psychology is an intermediate subject.

As far as employment is concerned, it can involve various industries, such as enterprises (state-owned enterprises, private enterprises), schools, prisons and justice. , covering a wide range, such as consulting psychology, management psychology, clinical psychology, EAP employee assistance program, etc.

Its theory is very complicated. Like a hundred schools of thought contended in ancient China, psychology can be divided into seven schools: structuralism, functionalism, gestalt, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanism and cognitivism. There are seven schools, each contending, which once created a "harmonious" atmosphere.

In short, there is psychology where there are people. For example, we sometimes make a slip of the tongue when we speak, which is considered as an unconscious behavior by Freud, a big psychologist. We can remember a series of phone numbers in a few seconds, but we may not remember them forever. The former is because our short-term memory works, and the latter is because information is not encoded, extracted or stored in our long-term memory. ...

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The so-called road is long, Xiu Yuan Xi, Xiu Yuan Xi, and the future of psychology is very long. We just haven't been cultivated into human-shaped little demons, far from the level of the old demon in Montenegro.

So, concentrate on practicing.