What do these terms related to psychology mean?
What is the meaning of; and difference between these terms:
Psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatry.
Also, please explain these fields of psychology:
Applied psychology,
Clinical psychology,
Educational psychology,
Health psychology,
Industrial/Organizational psychology,
Reasearch psychology,
Abnormal psychology,
Psychopathology,
Biological psychology [?!?],
Neuroscience [is it a branch of psychology?],
Cognitive psychology,
Personality psychology,
Developmental psychology,
Social psychology.
Deep psychology.
Please guys, don’t give me dictionary meanings. I can do that myself. Explain each of these terms as if you are explaining them to a class. I want to understand them, rather that just know them.
Ps. If you are a professional in any of these fields, please mention that in the answer/source.
Posted in cognitive treatment
content rss
August 8th, 2010 at 4:27 am
psychology - study of human/animal mental functions and behavior
psychotherapy - therapy meant to help an individual with problems in their life. personal counseling.
psychoanalysis - analysis of related psychological functions/behaviors
psychiatry - psychology + medicine. a psychiatrist is a psychologist who is also a doctor that can prescribe medicine to his/her patient.
a lot of what you mention can be searched at wikipedia. on a note of neuroscience, i believe it’s not a branch of psych, it’s the study of the brain itself (it’s a broad field like anything else). biological psychology is likely to be the relation between biology and the psychological functions and behaviors, like how certain hormones affect mood etc.
August 8th, 2010 at 5:01 am
[...] What do these terms related to psychology mean? | Psychotherapy London [...]
August 8th, 2010 at 7:07 am
[...] this article: What do these terms related to psychology mean? | Psychotherapy London AKPC_IDS += “11408,”;Popularity: unranked [...]
August 8th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
[...] What do these terms related to psychology mean? | Psychotherapy London [...]