The History of Psychology and The Formation of Psychology as a Science The subject of general psychology is the characteristics and mechanisms of functioning of the psyche. In the process of formation of psychology as a science occurred a number of changes in the subject of psychology. The First Stage. Antiquity - the subject of psychology is the soul. [...]

Psychoanalysis comprises three elements: a method for investigating unconscious thoughts and feelings, the theory of human personality and technique of psychotherapy (treatments for depression, neurosis and other mental disorders). The methods of psychoanalysis have been developed before it was set up comprehensive theory: the theory of psychoanalysis was in the process of continuous development. The [...]

Carl Jung’s Theory about Therapy According to the theory of a famous psychologist, original thinker and reformer of psychoanalysis Carl Jung, psychotherapy is the junction of the efforts of the psychologist and patient, working together as equals. Since the two form a dynamic unity, the analyst must also be open to change as a result [...]

In the first half of the 20th century, there were a lot of schools of psychology, each of which tried to explain all psychological phenomena in terms of a single all – embracing system. Psychoanalysis History of psychological school began when an Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud and his colleague J. Breuer cured “Anna O.” of [...]

Representatives of Transpersonal Psychology are: Stanislav Grof, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna. Transpersonal Psychology – represents a transcendent of human’s soul. Psychology is beyond me, beyond you and beyond a reasonable experience. Transpersonal Psychology describes the experience of consciousness states, when it goes beyond the usual “I”, beyond time and/or space. Sources of theoretical [...]