The Schools Of Thought

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Hie.I Am Having problems understanding the subject matter in the schools of though especially the psycoanalytic school by sigmund Freud.Kindly enlighten me on this.

-- Sheyi Ogebule (sptolemy@yahoo.com), February 13, 2003

Answers

Try Michael Wertheimer's Brief History of Psychology--it has a really nice summary of the schools of thought. Or read the articles in an encyclopedia of psychology.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), February 13, 2003.

Hi Sheyi, well being a student of psychology is a tough job sometimes as you are finding out. And you have to know the rules students have to know, and an important one it the intellegence rule. Call it the smart rule for short, and it has three parts to it. The first is, there are some things you as a student are not smart enough to understand. I for instance know there are some math things I just aint going to get no matter how hard I try. Second, there are some things that you don't understand now, but as you mature as a student the understanding that you seek will come when you've gained student maturety. Three, there are some things that no matter how neat they sound as theories and and knowledge you will never understand because when you get a good look you realize there is really nothing there, or maybe there is something there but there are also big gapping holes that really truely that don't make sense.

Now back to your question. A lot of folks have trouble understanding the subject matter in schools of thought because there are big holes in the theories that make it impossible for you to understand it. Chief among such theories that are difficult to understand is the psychoanalytic school by Freud. If you want to study this school, refer to number three in the smart rule for students above. Then get Ray Fancher's book on Freud. It will take you as close as you can get to the subject with as little pain as possible. Good luck, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), February 14, 2003.


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