Analyzing the impact of physics on modern psychology. Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus once said, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." The "long past" refers to the long pre-scientific psychology period before the official birth of psychology, while the "short history" refers to scientific psychology after the establishment of the first psychology laboratory (Wundt at the University of Leipzig in 1879) period.

In fact, the study of human psychology has begun in early ancient Greece, but psychology at that time was still included in philosophy. For example, Socrates' famous saying "Know thyself" reflects the concern for individual psychology; Plato divided human society into the "real world" and the "ideal world", and his rationalist psychological thoughts comprehensively unveiled the European psychology Aristotle published the first psychology-related monograph in the history of European psychology, "On the Soul", and so on.

Although the sages never stopped exploring human psychology during the long period of pre-scientific psychology, these studies were always cloaked in the guise of "philosophy." It was not until 1879 that a landmark event in the history of psychology occurred - the psychologist Wundt founded the world's first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. From then on, psychology entered the period of scientific psychology, and Wundt was therefore known as the "Father of Scientific Psychology".

However, psychology, as a general profession and a subject that studies human psychology and behavior, is still shrouded in mystery until now, and the general public does not know the true psychology. What is it? Even some folk "fortune telling" and "face reading" are included in the category of psychology. This is really a huge misunderstanding.

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Psychology is not psychological counseling

But psychological counseling belongs to psychology

I believe that everyone who studies psychology has encountered it The following scenario: Your classmate or friend asks curiously "What is your major?", you answer "Psychology", and then he or she will ask a question that you can't answer in a surprised tone, "Ah! Psychology, awesome, do you know what I’m thinking about now?”

This can be regarded as the deepest misunderstanding of psychology among the general public. They think that studying psychology is to figure out what other people think, or that "psychology = psychological counseling", and that all people who study psychology will be successful in the future. They all choose the psychological counseling industry; or they are influenced by the American TV series "Lie to me" and think that all psychology practitioners can analyze "micro-expressions" and transform into "human lie detectors"...