If you want to study psychology on your own, what kind of study should you start with?

Let's take a look at the tutorials of psychology first, and then choose to read some psychologists' monographs after reading the basic principles.

Wow, it's so broad, I've seen it for a long time, and I'm going to study medical psychology, clinical psychology, and nursing psychology.

I'm a medical student.

Psychology: It studies both animal psychology and human psychology, with human psychological phenomena as the main research object. Therefore, psychology is a science that studies psychological phenomena and the laws of psychological bending. Self-study psychology in the following ways:

1. Read Peng Tanling's "General Psychology" and Meng Zhaolan's "General Psychology", and ordinary Xihao psychology is the foundation.

2. Select the chapters in "The Interpretation of Dreams Freud" that interest you, and then read the remaining chapters carefully to lay a good foundation.

3. Pay attention to the content of "Mental Health", "Developmental Psychology" and "Educational Psychology" outside the classroom. In order to master scientific psychology, we must first learn the middle school culture courses and accumulate basic knowledge and psychological training.

4. Extensive involvement, psychology in general.

1. Systematic understanding:

You can read "General Psychology", "Personality Psychology", "Developmental Psychology", "Cognitive Psychology", "History of Psychology", "History and System of Western Psychology", etc.

2. Simple understanding:

You can read "The Interpretation of Dreams", "Fantasy is Reality", "Why Home Hurts", "Psychology and Life", "The Art of Love", "The Rabble", "Enneagram", etc. If you want to learn systematically, comprehensively and completely, you can achieve the goal by participating in professional training courses and learning.

1. Postgraduate entrance examination. Use the school's learning resources (faculty, research results, etc.) to conduct a professional in-depth study and understanding of psychology. After all, the school's teaching is a professionalism that is obvious to all and is universally trusted.

2. Research. That is, professional training in training courses. The advantage of the training institution is that in addition to the theoretical courses, there will also be practical simulation training course teaching, so as to achieve the systematic learning purpose of combining theory and practice.

The above is a more scientific study plan, after making the preliminary learning preparations, the rest depends on our own learning enthusiasm and learning initiative, to run through the whole learning process. As the saying goes: "The master leads the door, and the practice is in the individual", planning is only the stage of ideological preparation, and the specific needs to be proved by practical actions.

Self-study psychological measures: calm down and do not seek quick success; Start with the basics and read a lot of the history of psychology; In-depth study and choose the general direction of psychological learning; Examine learning outcomes, etc.

Step 1: Calm down and don't seek quick success

It is true that psychology is difficult to learn, especially for self-learners, and it is even more difficult to learn psychology on their own. If you want to learn psychology well, you need to calm your mind, don't seek to learn psychology quickly, you only need to maintain a certain amount of learning every day, and you don't need to force how deep the degree of learning is, and after a long time, you will naturally get some progress.

Step 2: Start with the basics and read a lot of history of psychology

First of all, we should start learning from the basics, by reading a large number of history of psychology, self-study can be upgraded to the development history of psychology, which is conducive to our comprehensive understanding of the overall content and structure of psychology, and lay a good foundation for studying psychology in detail later. Secondly, reading the history of psychology will make self-learners have a sense of awe for the development of psychology, and will have a deeper understanding of the basic content, main views and representative figures of each school of psychology, so that they can truly belong to psychology.

Step 3: Study deeply and choose the general direction of psychological learning

After knowing the history of the development of psychology, it can be regarded as understanding a certain basic knowledge of psychology, and then you can study in depth and begin to choose the general direction of psychology learning. Generally speaking, the number of psychology majors who choose educational psychology and management psychology is higher, so if you want to study psychology on your own, you must choose which type of psychology to study, and then seriously study this type of professional knowledge.

Step 4: Examine the learning outcomes

After systematic and professional learning, I believe that self-learners have a certain understanding and professional knowledge of psychology, so after learning this level, they need to test their learning results to see how much learning progress has been made during this period.

Precautions

It would be a mistake to think that psychology is to reason about other people's inner thoughts from expressions and actions in life. Psychology is a pure science, although there have been some changes in the future, and it has slowly changed to applied science, but in general, psychology still needs to rely on experimental methods and theories to explain human behavior.

In fact, people have a deep misunderstanding of psychology, psychology is not mysterious, and it is not possible to understand other people's thoughts directly through facial expressions. It's not so much about knowing others as about knowing yourself. By studying psychology, you will be able to gain a deeper understanding of your own actions and thoughts.

If you want to learn psychology quickly, it will not only add a certain degree of difficulty to learning, but also have a certain amount of mental pressure, which is not conducive to the study of psychology.

The methods of self-study psychology are as follows:

1. Start with the psychological problems or books that you are most interested in, and slowly deepen your interests or problems.

When you start to be interested in a subject, there is always an opportunity. This opportunity may be some personal encounters, which make me realize that I have some psychological problems and want to seek solutions; It may also be because of a very chance that I discovered the beauty and magic of psychology and wanted to know more about it.

Either way, we can start exploring further by following our own questions or what piques our interest. I first became interested in psychology because of a very popular book on physical, mental, and spiritual growth, which many people may have read, and it was Zhang Defen's "Meeting the Unknown Self".

2. Start by paying attention to some well-known psychologists, start with fragmented knowledge, and then gradually learn more profound and systematic content.

It's the best time for people who love to learn. As long as we are willing, we will be able to find a large number of free learning resources to learn, and we will be able to learn from our favorite teachers, seniors and masters very closely, anytime and anywhere through their words published on social platforms.

Many well-known psychologists such as Wu Zhihong, Li Meijin, Yang Fengchi, etc., are relatively active in various social networks, and often express professional opinions on popular events or their own thoughts, which are our entrance and guidance to a deeper knowledge system.

If you are particularly interested in any psychologist's views or texts, you can start by reading their social ** sharing one by one, and after accumulating more, you will have a vague general context, and then you will study deeply one by one along this context, and eventually you may become a special professional person in a certain aspect, or you may be involved in all branches of the entire theoretical system.

3. Start by reading a good college textbook such as Introduction to Psychology or Overview of Psychology, and first understand the history and branches of psychology.

Generally, there is an introductory introduction and overview course, so that students can have an overall understanding of the major, know its origin, development process, the most important people in this field, the most important landmark events, the most important works, the main schools, the focus of controversy, etc.

Next, the more important branches of this major are the study of theory, practice and tools; Then there is the study of auxiliary theories, tools and methods that are not professional but are very important; Finally, there will be some basic general knowledge and skills in addition to professional theories.

If you want to study psychology, you should start from the following three aspects:

1. Start with the psychological questions or books that you are most interested in.

Slowly deepen your interest or question When you start to be interested in a subject, there is always an opportunity.

This opportunity may be some personal encounter, or it may be because of a very fortuitous opportunity, which brings out the beauty and magic of psychology. Either way, we can actually follow our own questions or what intrigues us, and begin to explore the kisan further.

2. Start by paying attention to some well-known psychologists.

Start with fragmented knowledge, and then gradually learn more profound and systematic content. It's the best time for people who love to learn.

As long as we are willing, we will be able to find a large number of free learning resources to learn, and we will be able to learn from our favorite teachers, seniors and masters very closely, anytime and anywhere through their words published on social platforms. This is our gateway to a deeper body of knowledge.

3. Start by reading a good introduction to psychology or an overview of psychology and other college teaching materials.

Generally, there is an introductory introduction and overview course, so that students can have an overall understanding of the major, know its origin, development process, the most important people in this field, the most important landmark events, the most important works, the main schools, the focus of controversy, and so on.

Psychological content

Psychology includes basic psychology and applied psychology, on the one hand, psychology tries to explain the basic behavior and psychological functions of individuals with the operation of the brain, and at the same time, psychology also tries to explain the role of individual psychological functions in social behavior and social dynamics.

In addition, it is also related to neuroscience, medicine, philosophy, biology, religion, etc., because the physiological or psychological effects of these disciplines affect the mind of the individual.