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ogger wrote:I'm new in psychology and when I study from my textbook usually I encounter with Freudian or Neo-Freudian ideas. However how can I know if their ideas are accepted or not?
As an example Freud's types of anxieties. Reality anxiety, moral anxiety, neurotic anxiety. I want to know if psychologists currently accept this classification or not.
Like I sad i'm new in psychology. My question may show lack of understanding in some points, I would be even happier if you point those out so that I can learn more.
BWE wrote:Understand Freud as Freud. He mattered a lot at the time because we simply hadn't thought to try to diagram the subconscious. It is all outdated but in lots of ways he asked the right questions.
ogger wrote:I'm new in psychology and when I study from my textbook usually I encounter with Freudian or Neo-Freudian ideas. However how can I know if their ideas are accepted or not?
As an example Freud's types of anxieties. Reality anxiety, moral anxiety, neurotic anxiety. I want to know if psychologists currently accept this classification or not.
Like I sad i'm new in psychology. My question may show lack of understanding in some points, I would be even happier if you point those out so that I can learn more.
Hermit wrote:Care to tell us your textbook's title and author(s)? If you usually encounter Freudian or Neo-Freudian ideas in it you probably got the wrong one.
Spearthrower wrote:ogger wrote:I'm new in psychology and when I study from my textbook usually I encounter with Freudian or Neo-Freudian ideas. However how can I know if their ideas are accepted or not?
As an example Freud's types of anxieties. Reality anxiety, moral anxiety, neurotic anxiety. I want to know if psychologists currently accept this classification or not.
Like I sad i'm new in psychology. My question may show lack of understanding in some points, I would be even happier if you point those out so that I can learn more.
If I may ask a question to answer your question: are you studying just for personal interest, or for an academic institute?
If it's for the latter, I should hope you'd be given insight into the history of psychology that would essentially walk you through the changing ideas up until the present. I may be wrong on a global level, but typically in the West, Freud isn't taught in Psychology degrees, although it may be talked about, but some other disciplines seem to still continue using some of his ideas as if they weren't outdated.
If it's for the former, I think it really comes down to what you're trying to achieve and ultimately it's whatever titillates you. If it's a comprehensive understanding of Psychology, then perhaps a text book that covers a broad sweep of Psychology as they will usually explain what's fallen out of favour and why.
If you're really committed, then I'd suggest simply suspending any committal of belief until you've done enough leg work to get a better picture.
That bigger picture could start with something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_psychology
For my part, I'd personally suggest moving more towards Cognitive Neuroscience than Psychology as I personally think the general methodology is far sounder and the topic more fertile.
But overall, I'd say that pretty much everything Freudian is going to be very suspect if contemporary ideas are the objective.
ogger wrote:
What I want to be able to predict ones behavior in a given situation.
ogger wrote: But I can't grasp the psychology field like I do grasp math or physics.
ogger wrote: Considering what outcome I want to have from my studies what would you recommend me to do? Should I go with cognitive neuroscience?
aufbahrung wrote:freudian analysis got hitler right, don't underestimate godwin though.
ogger wrote:I want to be able to predict ones behavior in a given situation.
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