When most people think of the word “psychology,” they envision a person with a mental disorder or a therapist who treats such people. Actually, psychology, as a social scientific discipline, is the study of human thoughts, behaviors, beliefs, or emotional feelings. There are many different approaches to the study of psychology. Such approaches include Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Social psychology, and Humanistic Psychology, but most focused on is Psychoanalytic Psychology, being popularized by Sigmund Freud. It …showed first 75 words of 1365 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1365 total…held a monopoly on psychoanalytic practice, but soon nonmedical therapists also were admitted. Later developments included work on the technique and theory of psychoanalysis of children. Freud’s tripartite division of the mind into id, ego and superego became progressively more elaborate, and problems of anxiety and female sexuality received increasing attention. Psychoanalysis also found many extraclincal applications in other areas of social thought, particularly anthropology and sociology, and in literature and the arts.