[Mac1892]

I'm just curious about other INTJs opinions on Psychology and if you ever use it

[Wien1938]

Currently reading Jung. Very interesting.

[bionic]

I love psychology. I've been reading psychology and medical books since I was 4. I'm studying to become a Research Psychologist, emphasis on Social Psychology or Forensics.

[Apollo Celestio]

Immensely interesting. Great at finding problems, not so much answering them.. The people? Eh..

[calliope]

My favorite area of study/conversation. I read everything I can. In the last few years I have been moving far enough into neurobiology, particularly social brain hormone function, that I am doubting the amount of emphasis put on psychology over genetics. Right now I am studying Paul Ekman's understandings of human emotion which are very nicely framed in anthropology which is usually my preferred slant. Anything that pulls in Margaret Mead's work makes me happy. I am considering getting Ekman's cd's and maybe doing his seminar on lie detection through body language interpretation next.

[Nexus6]

I enjoy reading about psychology, especially Jung, because I just am enamoured of him, as a writer, thinker and person.

However, traditional psychology left much to be desired because it was so abstract and scientists lacked the subsequent advances in technology to study the brain properly, namely MRI and other kinds of tomography.

I think psychology combined with the fields of neurology and evolutionary psychology are very interesting. I enjoy reading the work of Robert Wright and Stephen Pinker as much as the writing of Jung for this reason.

[Theaetetus]

Psychology is great. Finding the reason why the mind does what it does is also great. What is not great is the misunderstandings that can arise from the study of psychology, and the fact that the human mind is structured in a certain way for a reason: because it already works. Stop screwing with it.

Then again, psychology is a byproduct of the human mind's normal operation, so it's alright. Wait, so was that...

tl;dr: Psychology is great. Please don't pick it as a major in college.

[taylor2005]

I love psychology. Too much maybe because one of my good friends is a psychologist and somtimes she gets tired of me picking her brain.

[EYENTJ]

@ Calliope: I heard Ekman's software actually kind of sucks.

Since you like neurobiology you might enjoy The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. A very good analysis of how psychotherapy can actually alter neurochemistry.

[calliope]

@ Calliope: I heard Ekman's software actually kind of sucks.

Since you like neurobiology you might enjoy The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. A very good analysis of how psychotherapy can actually alter neurochemistry.

Thanks Eyentj. Never heard of it, and that's exactly the kind of thing I would like to look at. I have looked into neurolinguistic programming altering neurochemisty. That seems to have measureable results.

The only feedback on Ekman's training is someone I know who was trained in it through FBI, but I think it was very thorough as opposed to something you order on the internet. Maybe there is some in between type level I could do.