Key problems for psychology as a field of knowledge

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

6 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

02/05/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. Focus of the essay.
2. Those who believe in both the easy and hard problems of consciousness.
3. Psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology.
No interesting fact about the mind,conceptually distinct from the functional facts.
1. The type-A Materialist.
2. Explaining objective mental human phenomena.
3. The analogy with gravity.
4. The problem: More than one way of explaining so-called universal human responses.
Science vs psychology.
1. Criticism by the famous philosopher Karl Popper.
2. The Freudian analysts.
3. hypothetical event: Freudian terms and Adlerian terms.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

This essay will discuss the problems that constantly face psychology as a field of knowledge. Some fields of knowledge, notably the natural sciences such as physics, biology and chemistry are comfortable with their status and the demarcation between one another. There is only one physics... there are many psychologies. Different schools of psychology and related disciplines have problems within themselves. The school of thought that the writer of this essay derives from is Jungian analytical psychology. However, I am so radically post-Jungian that many would say that I thought my way right out of it. There are serious problems needing tackling within Jungian psychology as there are within the modern philosophy of consciousness. There are serious problems within the philosophy of consciousness between concerning the Easy Problem of Consciousness and the Hard Problem of Consciousness. The Easy Problem focuses on the processes of mental functions.