Modern psychology is pretty much conceptual bunk, with very little experience to support it. Who ever heard of the entire human psyche being either anally or orally fixated. What about tactile or olfactory fixation? Its actually bunk.
Buddhist abhidharma had worked out how the human mind works over two thousand years ago. Genuine Buddhist lineages teach methods on how to rest the mind in peace and how to strengthen ones mind so it can become genuinely human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidharma
Quote: Some in the West have considered the Abhidhamma to be the core of what is referred to as “Buddhist Psychology”.[4] Other writers on the topic such as Nyanaponika Thera and Dan Lusthaus describe Abhidhamma as a Buddhist Phenomenology[5][6] while Noa Ronkin and Kenneth Inada equate it with Process philosophy.[7][8] Bhikkhu Bodhi writes that the system of the Abhidhamma Pitaka is “simultaneously a philosophy, a psychology and an ethics, all integrated into the framework of a program for liberation.”[9] Abhidharma analysis also extended into the fields of ontology, epistemology and metaphysics.
The prominent Western scholar of Abhidharma, Erich Frauwallner has said that these Buddhist systems are “among the major achievements of the classical period of Indian philosophy.”[10]
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And finally, one does not have to become “Buddhist” to earn the way to work directly with one’s own mind through meditation practice. Just find someone who is a lineage holder to teach you.
Then you can pretty much wave goodbye to Psychology.
And if that isn’t your cup of tea there is the Bible. Of course then you have to deal with God and sin too, but nobody promised there were no hitches. Truth is like that.
I look at the historic results of Buddhism in countries in Asia and I say...so much for the Buddhist branch of psychology. Just looking at the history,...that’s all!
I look at the historic results of Buddhism in countries in Asia and I say...so much for the Buddhist branch of psychology. Just looking at the history,...that’s all!