Psychology
Areas of Psychology
- Abnormal Psychology.
- Behavioral Genetics.
- Biological Psychology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Cognitive Psychology.
- Comparative Psychology.
- Cultural Psychology.
- Developmental Psychology.
- Differential Psychology.
- Evolutionary Psychology.
- Health Psychology.
- Mathematical Psychology.
- Neuropsychology.
- Personality Psychology.
- Positive Psychology.
- Psychopharmacology.
- Reverse Psychology.
- Social Psychology.
- Transpersonal Psychology.
- Feminine Psychology.
- Masculine Psychology.
Schools of Psychology
- Analytical Psychology (C.G. Jung) – Disturbances are caused by a lack of unity between the conscious and subconscious. The goal is to bring the two into unity.
- Behaviorism (John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner) – Focus on changing behavior and environment, not worrying about internal processes.
- Cognitivism – A reaction against Behaviorism, which ignoring the process of cognition or defined it as a behavior. Cognitivists see thinking or cognition as separate from behavior.
- Depth Psychology – Includes the Analytical (Jungian), Individual (Adlerian), and Psychoanalytic (Freudian) approaches to psychology. Is concerned with the unconscious.
- Descriptive Psychology
- Ecological Systems Psychology
- Ego Psychology
- Existential Psychology (Irvin D. Yalom).
- Functional Psychology
- Gestalt Psychology – “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
- Humanistic Psychology (Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow) – Believes humans are essentially good.
- Individual Psychology (Alfred Adler) – Also known as differential psychology or individual differences psychology. Branched off from Freudian psychoanalysis, focuses on the individual, and places primary causes on environmental and societal causes.
- Phenomenological Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Structuralism
- Transactional Analysis (Eric Berne) – An integrative theory that combines psychoanalysis, cognitivism, and humanism.
- Others:
- Self Psychology
- Transpersonal Psychology
Beginning from Library of Congress Classification Outline BF Psychology.
- Experimental Psychology.
- Psychotropic Drugs and Substances.
- Sensation (Aesthesiology).
- Consciousness (Cognition).
- Motivation.
- Affection (Feeling / Emotion).
- Will (Volition / Choice / Control).
- Applied Psychology.
- New Thought (Menticulture).
- Comparative Psychology.
- Psychology of Sex.
- Differential Psychology (Individuality / Self).
- Personality.
- Genetic Psychology.
- Developmental Psychology.
- Infant.
- Child.
- Adolescence.
- Adulthood.
- Class Psychology.
- Temperament (Character).
- Physiognomy (Phrenology).
- Graphology (Handwriting).
- Palmistry.
- Parapsychology.
- Psychic.
- Hallucinations.
- Sleep.
- Dreaming.
- Visions.
- Hypnotism.
- Suggestion.
- Mesmerism.
- Subliminal Projection.
- Telepathy.
- Mind Reading.
- Thought Transference.
- Spiritualism.
- Occult Sciences.
- Ghosts (Apparitions / Hauntings).
- Demonology (Satanism / Possession).
- Witchcraft.
- Magic (Hermetic / Necromancy).
- Astrology.
- Oracles (Sibyls / Divinations).
- Seers (Prophets / Prophecies).
- Fortune-Telling.
- Human-Alien Encounters.