The Influence of Analytical Physics on Modern Psychology

The Influence of Analytical Physics on Modern Psychology Psychologist hermann ebbinghaus once said, "Psychology has a long history, but only a short history". "Long past" refers to the long pre-scientific psychology period before the formal birth of psychology, and "short history" refers to the scientific psychology period after the establishment of the first psychology laboratory (Feng Te was in Leipzig University on 1879).

In fact, the study of human psychology began as early as ancient Greece, but psychology at that time was still included in philosophy. For example, Socrates' famous saying "know yourself" reflects the concern for individual psychology; Plato divided human society into "the real world" and "the conceptual world", and his rationalist psychological thought completely opened the prelude to the history of European psychology and left a deep footprint in the history of western culture. Aristotle published the first monograph on the soul in the history of European psychology, and so on.

Although in the long period of pre-scientific psychology, the sages never stopped exploring human psychology, but these studies always wore the cloak of "philosophy". Until 1879, a milestone event happened in the history of psychology-psychologist Feng Te established the world's first psychology laboratory in Leipzig University. Since then, psychology has entered the period of scientific psychology, and Feng Te is known as the "father of scientific psychology".

However, psychology, as an ordinary major and a discipline that studies human psychology and behavior, is still shrouded in a mysterious veil. The general public doesn't know what real psychology is, and even some folk "fortune telling" and "fortune telling" are classified into the category of psychology. This is really a big misunderstanding.

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Psychology is not counseling.

But psychological counseling belongs to psychology.

People who believe in psychology have encountered the following scenes: your classmates or friends are full of curiosity and ask, "What's your major?" , you answer "psychology", and then Ta will ask a question you can't answer in a surprised tone, "Ah! Psychology, awesome, then do you know what I am thinking now? " .

This can be regarded as the deepest misunderstanding of psychology by the general public. They think that studying psychology means trying to figure out other people's ideas, or "psychology = psychological counseling", and that people who study psychology will choose psychological counseling industry in the future; Or influenced by the American drama Lie to Me, they think that all psychological practitioners can analyze "micro-expressions" and become "human lie detectors".