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Tragedy at Virginia Tech: Cho Seung Hui and the Psychology of School Shoote
2007-09-23 15:30:00 On April 17, twenty-three-year-old college senior Cho Seung Hui killed at least thirty students and teachers at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia; fifteen persons are recovering from gunshot wounds. Law enforcement authorities have not definitively concluded that Cho was also responsible for the earlier shootings of a male and female student in a dormitory, but it seems likely. Assuming that he is, Cho used the two hours between the first and second round of murders to stop at the campus post office and send a package of video clips, photos, and writings to NBC in New York City. In the end, Cho turned one of his guns on himself. His lifeless body was found among those of some of his victims. In terms of the death toll, this was by far the most devastating and tragic school shooting in American history. But how does what we know so far about Cho's mental state compare to what we know about the mental states of other school shooters? Who Was Cho ... More About: Tragedy , School , Cho Seung-Hui
Gender Identity and Transgenderism
2007-09-23 13:52:00 Academic perspectives on the psychology of transsexuality are represented by groups like the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) and are codified in the mental illness model of the DSM-IV-TR as Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Tran svestic Fetishism (TF). This psychopathology treats transsexuality and cross-dressing as inherently bad things about us. They're not. Gender bending, gender queers, and transgenderism show society how uncomfortable it is trying to understanding gender and sexuality. Can sexologists refrain from placing value judgements upon those with gender dysphoria and instead refine the way we understand the psychology of gender, atypical gender development, and gender role socialization? I hope that by bringing a personal and non-judgemental scientific approach to understanding transgenderism, I can help transsexuals, cross-dressers, and psychopathologists grow and develop as people. It feels like everything should have been so obviou... More About: Transgenderism , Transgender
The Origins of Psychology
2007-09-17 15:00:00 From Kendra Van Wagner,While the psychology of today reflects the discipline?s rich and varied history, the origins of psychology differ significantly from contemporary conceptions of the field. In order to gain a full understanding of psychology, you need to spend some time exploring its history and origins. How did psychology originate? When did it begin? Who were the people responsible for establishing psychology as a separate science? Wilhelm Wundt Why Study Psychology History? Contemporary psychology is interested in an enormous range of topics, looking a human behavior and mental process from the neural level to the cultural level. Psychologists study human issues that begin before birth and continue until death. By understanding the history of psychology, you can gain a ... More About: Discipline , The O , Origin , Holo
Existential-humanist movement
2007-09-17 14:49:00 Humanistic psychology was developed in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis, arising largely from existential philosophy and writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard. By using phenomenology, intersubjectivity and first-person categories, the humanistic approach seeks to get a glimpse of the whole person and not just the fragmented parts of the personality or cognitive functioning. Humanism focuses on uniquely human issues and fundamental issues of life, such as self-identity, death, aloneness, freedom, and meaning. Some of the founding theorists behind this school of thought were Abraham Maslow who formulated a hierarchy of human needs, Carl Rogers who created and developed Client-centered therapy, and Fritz Perls who helped create and develop Gestalt therapy. It has become so influential as to be called the "third force" within psychology (preceded by behaviorism and psychoanalysis). And it will also play with your mind. More About: Humanist , Tent , Existential
Behaviorism
2007-09-17 14:44:00 Partly in reaction to the subjective and introspective nature of Freudian psychodynamics, and its focus on the recollection of childhood experiences, during the early decades of the 20th century, behaviorism gained popularity as a guiding psychological theory. Founded by John B. Watson and embraced and extended by Edward Thorndike, Clark L. Hull, Edward C. Tolman, and later B.F. Skinner), behaviorism was grounded in studies of animal behavior. Behaviorists shared the view that the subject matter of psychology should be operationalized with standardized procedures which led psychology to focus on behavior, not the mind or consciousness. They doubted the validity of introspection for studying internal mental states such as feelings, sensations, beliefs, desires, and other unobservables. In "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" (1913), Watson argued that psychology "is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science," that "introspection forms no essential part of its meth...
History of Psychology
More articles from this author:2007-09-17 14:33:00 History of Psychology From WikimediaEarly development Rudolf Goclenius Experimental psychology, as well as psychophysics, began with the development of the experimental scientific method by Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) in the 1010s. In his Book of Optics, he made use of the experimental method in his pioneering work on the psychology of visual perception. The first use of the term "psychology" is attributed to the German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Goeckel (Latinized Rudolph Goclenius), published in 1590. More than six decades earlier, the Croatian humanist Marko Maruli? used the term in the title of a work which was subsequently lost. The term did not fall into popular usage until the German idealist philosopher, Christian Wolff (1679-1754) used it in his Psychologia empirica and Psychologia rationalis (1732-1734). This distinction between empirical and rational psychology was picked up in Diderot's Encyclopedie and was popularized in France by Maine de Biran. The root psyche ... More About: History , Holo 1, 2, 3 |
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