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Psychology has been around as a formal science for over 100 years. But it hasn’t escaped its original focus. Born in the laboratories of medicine, it has always been defined as the science of psychopathology, meaning what’s wrong with us. Perceived in this way, psychology has never been a major contributor to a general definition of human nature; we think about ourselves psychologically only when something’s gone amiss. Until about 100 years ago, and still for a great many of us, it was most common to think of ourselves as creatures of God; a God Who gave us a small but very powerful piece of Himself – His Spirit. We call this piece our “soul”, meaning the spiritual core of us. Though we don’t easily think of ourselves as possessing – being in charge – of the spiritual entity from which it derives. We usually think of it as something that belongs to some universal Presence or process – which we must obey to become totally and safely in tune. Tyranny has survived for centuries basing itself upon this belief derived from our fear, that humanity is insufficient unto itself to define human nature. The other terrible prejudice, under whose boot we suffered as long as we’ve been here, is the common presumption that individual humanity tends toward criminality, and cannot be trusted. When, as Thomas Jefferson said: if there isn’t active rebellion from the status quo that defies conventional wisdom and mores – possible only by individual effort … a mob never did anything new – democracy is no longer alive. Enter psychology, the secularizing, emancipating science. What it’s doing subtly is one, to claim the soul as belonging to humans; and two, to discard the notion of “psychopathology”. This process emancipates psychological science from the laboratories of medicine and its emphasis upon illness. Self-learning that changes life works only if all psychological conditions and symptoms are respectfully regarded as a normal part of psychic evolution. Within the practicum we call “psychotherapy”, psychology treats the individual far better than ever before in any human venue. The essays in this book venture to define human nature in this new way, treating social events as a derivative of individual experience, rather than the other way around. The purpose is to perceive everything in human understanding a few degrees to the right or left, as we learn perpetually, even daily, to change the meaning of anything; knowing that whenever we do this personal work, we are replacing violence with a peaceful process. Don Fenn PhD
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I've been a psychotherapist for 30 years, written 8 novels, science fiction, fable, political satire, romantic thrillers, 3 nonfiction books that turn psychology into a political philosophy. I'm dedicated to facilitating a true direct-vote world democracy without representation, dissolving all economic and political aristocracy as ruling authorities, by eliminating the possibility of wealth, thus completely democratizing power. |
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