• Wtf is Psychology

Positive Psychology: This strand of psychology is all about figuring out what makes life worth-while. What increases personal well-being and happiness, but also the well-being of society. By the way, if you ever heard about a happiness formula, it’s bullshit. A high school math teacher went through the formula and the math doesn’t add up.

• Eric Fromm: Eric contributions to psychology is perfectly summed up in this quote "Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.” https://fromm-online.org/
• Abraham Maslow: Abrahma Maslow is best known for his hierarchy of needs - which he never published as a rigid pyramid. He’s on the opposite spectrum than Freud, believing in the fundamental good of human nature. Maslow would say that doing whatever you need given the circumstances will make you happiest.

Existential Psychology: What is death and are you really free? I’m going to leave you ponder these questions…

• Friedrich Nitzsche: If religion doesn’t answer the big question of life, what is there left? Is there meaning to our being at all?
• Nitzsche and Nihilism is often coupled together.

• Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard and The Psychology of Anxiety

Psychoanalysis: There is you, and then there is the unconscious you. The thoughts and feelings you buried deep down in your unconscious mind. Surfacing them, teaches you about you.

Deep Psychology

Myth:

Follow up links and info shared during Myths discussion

• Carl Jung

Carl Jung and The Value of Anxiety Disorders

Astrology and birth Charts:

The Psychology of Self-Transformation

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