HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ice Pick, Psychoanalysis, Psychosurgery
22 Jan 2018
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Emergence of the psyences - sept 18 2017. 20th c growth in size and importance of disciplines relating to mental and emotional phenomena. They wanna know about how we experience the world, how does our mood manifest, etc. This shift created a way about thinking of people, for most of us we wont perceive this as unique, bc were socialized to understand the world in one way. Mental processes become seen as central to human endeavour, from advertising strategy to occupational health to school performance. Turn towards psychology to comprehend and surmount problems of the human condition like despair, loss and conflict". Every day concerns like sex, marriage, womanhood and manhood; work, ambition, worldly failure, habits, desires, inclinations" subject to psychological undertsanding. Boom in pop psychology, ranging from how to make decisions to the art of picking up". A book of how to pick up girls.
