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Popular psychologyPopular psychology refers to concepts and theories about human mental life and behaviour that come from outside the technical study of psychology, but purport to go beyond everyday knowledge. Popular psychology should be distinguished from naive psychology, the technical term for the intuitive, non-technical understanding of our own and others' psychological processes that all people have. Like the parallel areas of naive physics and naive biology, naive psychology may often be technically incorrect but is often functional, in the sense that it gives an accurate description of the situations that that we face as individuals, and specifies reasonable courses of action to take. Popular psychology, on the other hand, usually purports to offer a technical insight, and often uses technical jargon, but does so in a way that is unsupported by systematic analysis or knowledge. Often it draws on academic or clinical psychology, but seizes on ideas out of context or without the conditions and cautions that a professional psychologist would attach to them. Popular psychology should also be distinguished from various schools of psychological thinking that lie outside the current mainstream, for example the approaches to understanding psychology that flow from most religious systems or from astrology. While professional psychologists are as mistrustful of these as they are of popular psychology, some of these systems do represent a disciplined and careful attempt to understand human thought and emotions. Some exponents of the genre include Edward DeBono and Tony Buzan who have popularized perception and mnemonics respectively.This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell Stop Walking on Eggshells; Coping When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason Positively Fifth Street by James McManus The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement by Anthony Robbins Sleeping Through the Night : How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep by Jodi A. Mindell Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at Home and in the Workplace by Sari Solden Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder by Richard A. Moskovitz M.D. Love, Medicine and Miracles : Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients by Bernie S. Siegel Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn New Hope for People with Borderline Personality Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional by Neil R. Bockian Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay Recent Popular_psychology related patents From USPTO: |