Fernando Vidal's The Sciences Of The Soul

Within psychology, there are several perspectives used to describe, predict, and explain human behavior. The seven major perspectives in modern psychology are psychoanalytic, behaviorist, humanist, cognitive, neuroscientific/biopsychological, evolutionary, and sociocultural. Describe the perspectives, using two to three sentences each. Select one major figure associated with one of the perspectives and describe his or her work in two to three sentences. Type your response in the space below.

The goal of the following paper is to convince that soul theory is directly linked to one’s personal identity. This paper will also point out an objection raised to the theory, and to finish will prove how that objection is incorrect, leaving soul theory as the only answer to what makes someone who they are.

The first of four segments dives into the historical perspective with the famous quote from Tertullian (p.8), The Middle Ages, Augustine, Roman Catholic influence and the barbaric bridge between reason and religion is leveled by the awareness that, “All truth is God’s truth” (Entwistle, 2015, p. 8, 14, 24-25, 41). The genesis of integration and the connection between theology and psychology begins with understanding the secular history of humans and the Creators vantage point of loving His creation (Entwistle,

Psychology is not just philosophical speculation and reasoning over the years it has evolved and it is now also recognised as a science, to understand what psychology is all about it is necessary to know it’s origins and the theorist who brought it out of obscurity, Sigmund Freud. He developed the Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytical perspective to enable better understanding of human behaviour these concepts will be discussed further later in this study. After Freud opened the gateway other perspectives and approaches have been developed, now with five main areas of psychology - Cognitive, Behaviourist, Biopsychology and Humanist approaches. For a comparison with the Psychodynamic theory, Behaviourist Theory will be discussed.

As far back as the time when man first discovered ways to communicate with one another he has attempted to understand and explain the course of historical events. In considering the historical development of scientific psychology two main views of the historical progress the field of science have emerged: personalistic theory and naturalistic theory.

In order to totally comprehend psychology, one must first go back into its history and explore its origins. A question that I asked myself and became informed of throughout the course of this semester is: “How did the studies of Psychology originate? What period was Psychology created?” Because I was able to question myself, I became more involved and interesting not only in Psychology 445, but the overall studies of Psychology.

The term psychology, from the very earlier time, has been regarded as the study of mind and behavior

The topic I have chosen for my final project is the argument of whether or not we as humans have a soul. If so, is it something different from the brain and does this “force” survive after our physical death? The concept of a soul has long been rooted in religion and we still debate its existence to this day. As humans, we fear the unknown that follows this existence; after this physical life. Due to this fear we have created this idea of a force larger than ourselves. Many scientists and philosophers have contradicting viewpoints on the existence of a soul. However research and discussion still continues on the matter to hopefully uncover the answers we seek.

The history of Psychodynamic psychology originated with Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century. Freud proposed a psychodynamic theory to which personality consists of the id. The Id is present at birth and it resides in the world of unconsciousness. Freud also said that the unconscious is also a place where human instinctual biological drives reside. The drives direct our behaviour towards choices that promise to satisfy our basic human needs. The drives ensure our survival like drinking water and eating food, the desire for reproduction and the necessity for aggression.

The word "psychology" comes from the Greek word “psyche” which means "spirit, or soul". As noted, the roots of psychology are derived from ancient Greece. An era during in which, Greece was a powerful and resourceful country with money, nice for trades, democracy, and diversity. Ancient Greek philosophers attempted to understand the physical world, including the nature and behavior of humans, including the mind, heart, soul, spirit, and brain. Popular themes reflected in Greek philosophy embrace, early Greek religion and medicine, animism, anthropomorphism, magic,

Modern society has an idea of what psychology truly is. However, way back in the day, only ideas and superstition took existence. It was not until the late 1800s that ideas that would mold modern day psychology would come to fruition with great minds such as Wilhelm Wundt and Sigmund Freud. While society does not understand the brain completely, it does understand the areas of it as well as the levels of consciousness. In 1839, Edgar Allan Poe would come out with one of his well-known stories called “The Fall of the House of Usher” that reflects what psychology would later turn into through the representation of the human mind’s thoughts. The story follows a man only known as the Narrator that is friends with a guy named Roderick. It is his

Psychology is a science that studies the mental processes of people and animals, the word comes from Greek “psyco” and was used for the first time by the Christian poet Marko marulic, in his book of psychology 'derratione animae humanai'. In the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century Maruli was considered the father of Croatian literature, one of the most severe figures of the Renaissance. Was the philosopher Wuihetm Wund physiologist, psychologist and philosopher German who established the first laboratory of psychology in 1879 at the university of leipzig and his goal was to explore the primary elements of the mind. Within the psychology exist several pathologies of the mind between them the different types of schizophrenia

The soul is hates living inside the body, forced to live next to the arteries. Also it feels every ache and pain.TG

Aquinas holds that the body and soul are one united as one in his hylomorphic view of the Human person. This paper will breakdown his three main points of interest, that the soul is the immaterial form of the body, that it is substantial and that it is subsistent while providing an objection and rebuttal to reaffirm the Hylomorphic view on the soul. Thorough breakdown and analysis of these claims will give a better understanding of the connection between body and soul, and what it means to be human.

Etymologically speaking, psychology is the science of the soul. Following Aristotle’s view of what would belong to the science of the soul, a proper definition for psychology would be “the living being in so far as it is the principle of vital activities, in particular regarding those beings endowed with immanent activity or the power to move themselves, considered as such.” St. Thomas believed that psychology should be defined with respect to vital activity as a whole, understanding the distinction of living and nonliving is more basic than that of conscious and non-conscious.