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Sigmund Freud and Psychology
In and around 1892, Sigmund Freud, who was a Neurologist unfortunately came under influence of the Greek Philosophy and literature. Philosophy in Germany prospered due to their Greek influence with philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Fredrick Nietzsche.
Freud was a Viena Neurologist who soon discovered that the medicine he was practicing was minus philosophy. And when Freud, influenced by Nietzsche went deeper into philosophy, he discovered that Greeks investigated mental health conditions thoroughly. He started a private practice and brought his understanding of Neuroscience with Greek-German philosophy to start Psychology.
As usual, Freud was extensively criticized for his ideology, because that needed a brain. Philosophy empowers individuals, doesn’t keep individuals dumb, and therefore can not be scaled. Roman masters did not like the idea. And so Freud and his ideas were brushed off, and put to the sideline.
Anna Freud War Trauma and Americanization of Psychology
During the second world war, Freud’s daughter Anna was healing the children who were traumatized by the Nazi concentration camps. It was then the British and Americans adopted Psychology, but only for counseling of their soldiers to help them recover from war trauma. During the 1971 Vietnam war, once the Vietnamese started beating the American soldiers, Psychology became popular, because the family and the soldiers needed counseling and Medicine did not have any answers for trauma.
Thereafter, Sigmund Freud’s Philosophical Psychology became American Psychology.
American Psychology=Behavioral Observation-Philosophy- Vedic Spirituality -Germanic Naturism