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Buddhist and Western psychology: fundamental differences in understanding mind and reality

Compared to Western Psychology, what are the characteristic features Buddhist approaches to the mind? To what extent can these fruitfully interact?

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A psychology student's professional aspirations in clinical counseling

The reasons given for wanting to enter the field include an intellectual interest in understanding the unconscious mind. Professional goals consist mainly of establishing a clinical counseling practice focusing on personal development and family and interpersonal relationship health.

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Evolutionary psychology as a bridge between social science and Christianity

Evolutionary psychology is a new multidisciplinary field which promises to irrevocably change the traditional social sciences." (Zimmer, 1998) This report is about evolutionary psychology and its potential for bridging the gap between the social sciences and Christianity.

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Three categories and applications of humanistic psychology today

Humanistic Psychology as practiced today can be divided roughly into three large categories of activities. A large mainstream group of humanistic psychotherapists, who subscribe to existential theories and use a variety of methods, work to help people who are in pain.

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Sartre and Baldwin on the psychology of anti-Semitism and racism

In "Anti-Semite and Jew," the existentialist philosopher John Paul Sartre, a gentile, analyzed the psychology of an anti-Semitic individual who hates Jews.

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Humanistic psychology's critique of mainstream psychology's view of human nature

Humanistic and transcendental perspectives of psychology have been making inroads into psychology to alter the assumptions and practices of mainstream psychology.

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Freud and Mill on society's effect on individual psychology

The relationship between man and society has interested philosophers for thousands of years. On one hand, civil society needs structure and government institutions. They protect every individual from the abuse of the weakest by the strongest and from mob rule.

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The evolution of organizational psychology and its historical development

An interesting subfield, organizational psychology is that portion of Industrial/Organizational Psychology which concerns itself with understanding social processes within organizations (Jex, 2002).

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Developmental psychology assessment of infant motor and cognitive development

The field of developmental psychology has made invaluable contributions in assessing the physical, cognitive, moral, social, and personality developments made by individuals.

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Theoretical approaches to environmental psychology and human behavior

The field of environmental psychology is a specialized discipline within psychology whose major developments have been totally adopted into mainstream psychology. In past few decades, the much of the positive and negative visibility of environmental psychology have been lost.

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