@Tranquil: One involves a medical degree and can prescribe medication. The other involves some training, but not med school, and they cannot prescribe medication.
NEITHER should be undertaken as a profession unless one really, REALLY cares to help people. If one messes up, people could die.
I enjoyed my Psych class last semester and love the subject but couldn't take it up as a profession because I'm just not a people person
You can explore the science aspect. My friend is working her way towards a degree and has no intention of treating patients. She hopes to do criminal profiling and learning why a person committing a crime did it in the first place.
@Tranquil: One involves a medical degree and can prescribe medication. The other involves some training, but not med school, and they cannot prescribe medication.
NEITHER should be undertaken as a profession unless one really, REALLY cares to help people. If one messes up, people could die.
I feel this particular part really needs to be REPEATED and STRESSED
I enjoyed my Psych class last semester and love the subject but couldn't take it up as a profession because I'm just not a people person
You can explore the science aspect. My friend is working her way towards a degree and has no intention of treating patients. She hopes to do criminal profiling and learning why a person committing a crime did it in the first place.
If you're serious about wanting to learn it without needing it to lead onto paid work, it is a very helpful thing to educate yourself in. But then it goes hand in hand with Sociology; the means to understand society and how to help it progress. Both subjects aren't only useful in the medical profession or law but also in many forms of media, marketing and consumerism and then they're just really useful to help you get on in life. I took a big interest in it after having two sessions of counselling (aka behavioural therapy) and studying media. Very clever stuff if you're a writer too!
It's a worthy topic to learn. It's applicable everywhere and can be referred to in lots of professions. But to make a career out of it, like others said, so incredibly important the intent is truly to help people, not the salary.
@Tranquil: Psychology as a study is interesting enough.I get a lot of enjoyment personally out of reading psychology texts.
Psychologists dont actually make anything worth noting.My cousin got a degree in the field and has to go back to school since she cant find a good job with said degree.
Shrinks on the other hand make a bundle.I dont much care for them since they make money off of convincing normal people that they have mental illnesses and get them shot full of pills they dont need (That is not to say this is always the case)
I find psychology to be a sort of super power to be honest; when one knows even a few tricks of the mind they can either use it to help people overcome problems, or abuse it for personal gain.
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