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jedusorV: is this a step towards or away from self-actualization?
me: ohhhhh do not even get me STARTED on Maslow
me: >:(
V: I want to get you started on Maslow.
me: then I will never get to showering or eating, and then I will never get to your beta
me: is that what you want
me: because if you say yes, I will legit give up cleanliness and food and go on a rant about the failings of psychology as a scientific field
V: It's like you don't know me at all. YES, i want to listen to that rant. Gladly and raptly.
me: okay
me: so psychology originated in philosophy, obviously, as all sciences do
me: but psychology never fucking let go of philosophy. people still treat it like philosophy, in fact, because it still treats ITSELF like philosophy. in intro psych classes, we as an academic culture are actually teaching shit like Freud and Maslow as the subject matter itself, not as history of the subject
me: Maslow legit believed in self-actualization as a crucial part of human development! he LEGIT included the attainment of pure happiness in his analysis of human needs! and instead of covering this in five minutes on the first day of class, as an introduction to how people USED to think, which is what it and the vast majority of current psychology classes SHOULD BE, we're teaching it as FACT, what the FUCK
me: intro psych classes consist largely of the presentation of various theories of human psychology that are 1) conflicting, 2) overly vague, 3a) composed of GUESSWORK, and 3b) FLAT-OUT FACTUALLY INCORRECT
me: the vast majority of introductory psychology classes should be kept entirely intact, in fact, and just relabeled "History of Psychology" and shunted to an elective position
me: while ACTUAL introductory psychology courses should consist of a curriculum (that AFAIK has not actually been created) focusing on CURRENTLY ACCEPTED RESEARCH and fucking NEUROSCIENCE. because brains are where this shit happens.
me: as a matter of fact, introductory neuroscience should be a PREREQUISITE to introductory psychology, because it it legitimately impossible to actually understand how people think without knowing anything about the structure and function of the brain
me: instead, we take these bright-eyed freshmen and subject them to an entire semester of discussion of Freud's anal obsession stage and Maslow's self-actualization bullshit, instead of teaching them how people actually think, and they come out of it thinking psychology is bullshit. and they're right, psychology as it currently exists IS bullshit
me: which is a fucking shame, because there's so much that could be done with it if it weren't composed solely of the people who didn't FUCKING DROP THE COURSE when the teacher started in on Erik motherflibbing Erikson
me: okay
me: okay.
me: ohhhhh do not even get me STARTED on Maslow
me: >:(
V: I want to get you started on Maslow.
me: then I will never get to showering or eating, and then I will never get to your beta
me: is that what you want
me: because if you say yes, I will legit give up cleanliness and food and go on a rant about the failings of psychology as a scientific field
V: It's like you don't know me at all. YES, i want to listen to that rant. Gladly and raptly.
me: okay
me: so psychology originated in philosophy, obviously, as all sciences do
me: but psychology never fucking let go of philosophy. people still treat it like philosophy, in fact, because it still treats ITSELF like philosophy. in intro psych classes, we as an academic culture are actually teaching shit like Freud and Maslow as the subject matter itself, not as history of the subject
me: Maslow legit believed in self-actualization as a crucial part of human development! he LEGIT included the attainment of pure happiness in his analysis of human needs! and instead of covering this in five minutes on the first day of class, as an introduction to how people USED to think, which is what it and the vast majority of current psychology classes SHOULD BE, we're teaching it as FACT, what the FUCK
me: intro psych classes consist largely of the presentation of various theories of human psychology that are 1) conflicting, 2) overly vague, 3a) composed of GUESSWORK, and 3b) FLAT-OUT FACTUALLY INCORRECT
me: the vast majority of introductory psychology classes should be kept entirely intact, in fact, and just relabeled "History of Psychology" and shunted to an elective position
me: while ACTUAL introductory psychology courses should consist of a curriculum (that AFAIK has not actually been created) focusing on CURRENTLY ACCEPTED RESEARCH and fucking NEUROSCIENCE. because brains are where this shit happens.
me: as a matter of fact, introductory neuroscience should be a PREREQUISITE to introductory psychology, because it it legitimately impossible to actually understand how people think without knowing anything about the structure and function of the brain
me: instead, we take these bright-eyed freshmen and subject them to an entire semester of discussion of Freud's anal obsession stage and Maslow's self-actualization bullshit, instead of teaching them how people actually think, and they come out of it thinking psychology is bullshit. and they're right, psychology as it currently exists IS bullshit
me: which is a fucking shame, because there's so much that could be done with it if it weren't composed solely of the people who didn't FUCKING DROP THE COURSE when the teacher started in on Erik motherflibbing Erikson
me: okay
me: okay.
