Psychology:

Divination by means of the features of the head (interior).

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Christian psychology: Any ostensible form of psychology that involves biblical counseling.

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spiritual psychology: Healing modality that stems from anthroposophy, archetypal psychology, and Jungian psychology.

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Eastern psychology: Group of psychological therapies of Eastern origin, notably those psychological methods that are parts of Ayurveda, TCM, or Tibetan medicine. One of the primary tools of Eastern psychology is meditation.

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Humanistic Psychology (holistic psychology): An approach to psychology in which emphasis is on one's ability to direct one's life and assume responsibility for one's actions. It originated in the late 1950s in the United States.

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transpersonal psychology (transpersonal counseling, transpersonal counseling psychology): Combination of Jungian psychology, psychosynthesis, and Eastern mysticism. It emphasizes meditation, prayer, and self-transcendence.

Carl Jung (see Jungian psychology) was the first to use the expression transpersonal (ueberpersoenlich), in 1917. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, the codeveloper of Holotropic Breathwork, coined the name transpersonal psychology.

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Psychologization.

See HYPNOTISM

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color psychology: Variation of color therapy.

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sacred psychology: Experiential psychology developed by psychologist Jean Houston, former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

Its theory posits three realms of experience: ordinary reality, a collective unconscious, and the realm of God, which is immanent in the High Self.

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Jungian psychology (Analytical Psychology): System of psychoanalysis founded by psychiatrist and reincarnationist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), of Zurich, Switzerland.

Jungian psychology theory posits a collective unconscious, synchronicity, and life energy (libidinal energy, the primal energy). Jung held that studying the collective racial unconscious could enhance understanding of the individual unconscious.

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hand psychology: A form of scientific palmistry.

Its principle is that one's hands reveal vast psychological information. Hand psychology features dermatoglyphics: the study of fine ridges on fingertips and palms.

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Transpersonal Psychology:

The study of experiences, beliefs and practices that suggest that the sense of self can extend beyond our personal or individual reality. The subject matter of transpersonal psychology overlaps to some extent with parapsychology, but the two disciplines tend to have different approaches and emphases.

Parapsychology is primarily concerned to investigate evidence for and against the reality of paranormal phenomena. Transpersonal psychology, on the other hand, is more interested in investigating the transpersonal significance of such phenomena (i.e., the ways in which they may give people a sense of connectedness with a larger, more universal or spiritual reality).

See also Mysticism .

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process psychology (Dreambody approach, Dreambody Work, process oriented psychology, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Process Work): Spiritual form of psychotherapy developed by American psychotherapist and author Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Process psychology involves bodywork, dreamwork, and meditation. Its theory posits a dreambody, and its design is to heal the source of illness as it manifests in the unconscious.

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Psychology. The Science of Soul, in days of old: a Science which served as the unavoidable basis for physiology. Whereas in our modern day, it is psychology that is being based (by our great scientists) upon physiology.

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Psychology of evil: Nascent Christian psychological philosophy endorsed by M. (Morgan) Scott Peck, M.D. Peck is the author of The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Simon & Schuster, 1979), People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (Simon & Schuster, 1983), Further Along The Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (Simon & Schuster, 1993), In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (Simon & Schuster, 1997).

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Psychology In philosophy, the systematic study of mind, as opposed to physics or the study of matter. Applied in theosophy to the attributes, qualities, and powers of the human intermediate nature, contrasted with physiology.

In ancient times psychology was the science of soul; and this science being the causative, and physiology the effective or consequential, no one was considered an informed or expert physiologist who was not previously trained in psychology.

In modern days, due to an almost utter ignorance of the inner nature of man, psychology has largely been based on physiology, if indeed not a vague type of physiology itself.

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energy psychology: Subject of Energy Tapping, by psychologists Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., and Harry Vincenzi, Ed.D. Its basis is the acupuncture of Chinese medicine. According to these coauthors, the development of energy psychology began in the early 1960s, with George J. Goodheart, Jr. (see applied kinesiology). At bottom, the technique involves thinking about a painful experience or issue as one digitally taps particular acupoints on one's body.

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psychological astrology (astro-psychology): Combination of horoscopic astrology (see astrologic medicine) and Jungian psychology. psychology of evil: Nascent Christian psychological philosophy endorsed by M. (Morgan) Scott Peck, M.D.

Peck is the author of The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Simon & Schuster, 1979), People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (Simon & Schuster, 1983), Further Along The Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (Simon & Schuster, 1993), In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (Simon & Schuster, 1997).

In The Road Less Traveled (p. 273), Peck equated laziness with original sin,a condition that Christianity ascribes to the first human's act of disobedience to God. Peck stated that the lazy part of the self...may actually be the devil. In People of the Lie, which he called a dangerous book, Peck claimed that he had met Satan. He stated: As well as being the Father of Lies, Satan may be said to be a spirit of mental illness. In Further Along The Road Less Traveled, he asserts (pp. 186-187): Spiritual/religious ideas and concepts are necessary in the treatment of many people....I realized that there was no way to treat...people (with phobias) effectively without trying to convert them to a more benign worldview: a view of the world...as...at least...a place in which they....had some kind of protection in the form of God's grace.

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Pre- and Perinatal Psychology: Method whose theory posits cellular imprints created at conception and between conception and birth.

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Definition and meaning of American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association (APA) - [Psychology]

Founded in 1892, the American Psychological Association (APA) is the leading scientific and professional society for psychology in the United States. There are 45 divisions representing special interests, research, and advocacy issues. There is a division for the Teaching of Psychology which engages 29 percent of working psychologists, for Psychologists in Private Practice, and for Psychological Hypnosis.

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