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Psychology
Psychology
L OG
GYY
• from the Greek word “psyche” which
means SOUL
• By Dutch physician Steven Blankaart
• “study of behavior and mental processes”
• Seeks to answer why the human mind
works the way it does
• Not simply confine within the treatment of
mental health problems but
encompasses even the other areas of
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF PSYCHOLOGY
PLATO
ARISTOTLE
• A man can be understood by his functions
• A man functions to grow, to feel, to move and most
importantly , to reason
• If a person simply eats and copulates without thinking,
he or she lives like an animal and is not completely a
human being
CONFUCIUS
• Envisioned the superior man to have the following
virtues:
-Humanness
-Righteousness
-Proper Rite
-Knowledge
-Integrity
THE CORE TENETS OF
HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
• Self awareness for a method of enlightenment
• Conscious mind is related to Atman, the
personal self
• Unconcious mind is related to Bruhman, the
impersonal self
I M P O R TA N T
PERSONALITIES
IN PSYCHOLOGY
Hippocrates (460-377 BCE)
-Chinese physician-thoughts
-Fatherof experimental
and feelings are not from the
psychology
heart
-Consciousness
-Dreams and insomnia
William James
(1842-1910) Max Wertheimer