I think politics come out of psychology.
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else poetry in terms of psychology.
Like all science psychology is knowledge and like science again it is knowledge of a definite thing the mind.
Our problem from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy but it's more like pop psychology not a course of treatment or anything. To me it's more like social intelligence.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
History sociology economics psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.