#doing my biopsych reading but just noticed that
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Happy Belated New Year! I saw a reply that you had recently about moving. Did any one of your friendships or relationships suffer because of that? Also i've been following you blog for a longgggg time and kinda noticed your a psychology nerd. What do you think of the concept of Shadow Work?
Happy belated new year to you too, anon! Moving out of my home province didn’t really do any damage to my long-standing friendships - most of the people I’m close with have either moved away at some point or have been friends with me through other moves. We’ve been together a very long time! There are definitely some relationships that could’ve become more if I had’ve stuck around, but I think it was worth it to leave for the career opportunities alone. There were even some I was glad to have some distance from emotionally since things were headed in strange and variable directions. My family also calls me once a week and I usually hear from my brother just about every other day, so I never feel disconnected from them.
It haunts me so badly that everyone is referencing how long I’ve been on here. I hadn’t even thought about it before. TBH my first year of university doesn’t feel that long ago? And yet it’s been seven whole years. Gross!
Jungian psychology is super fun from a philosophical perspective, but from a more literal biopsych angle it often makes me want to check to see if I’m secretly reading a DND character creator handbook. Regarding the shadow as a concept, I really think that “negative emotions” is a poor classification of the human experience and really gives grief, anger, and plain old sadness a bad name as things to be avoided instead of the catalysts and processing tools they really are. Still, the concept of a disowned self, aspects that you throw away due to societal pressures, is a rich one. Again, though, I find treating that concept as developmental in children for them to get things that they want is a little ???? Conditioned behaviours, such as rerouting anger or avoiding tantrums, aren’t really the same as repression and it makes me >:( to treat them like they are. I think the shadow as a concept really lacks the subtlety and nuance that I lean towards when considering identity, replacing it with a straightforward approach that is very categorical and probably more helpful towards people who need that kind of mental organization.
Anyway! Shadow work itself I think is a nice self-help thing and is great for people who really feel a spiritual connection with themselves and the concepts of good and evil. I’d just prefer reconditioning exercises, such as mindfulness or CBT, to it any day since they don’t fiddle around with concepts of the authentic self that I consider utilitarian. People exist in context! Relationships, identity, fluidity! There is no one authentic self! I get stuck on concepts like this.
#reply#i don't think Jung's concepts are terrible or anything by any means#they've been foundational in developmental psychology's development as a field#and they are good flagstones#i just !!!!! need more narrative approaches i think#more holistic ones maybe
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//so remember how I took that practice psych GRE and basically aced it? Well, I did a little further digging into which areas I did better on than others and have determined I should still study a little bit.
but my problem is.........this is gonna sound super ego-centric and narcissistic but here we are. my problem is I’m too smart for common study techniques. like...in the “I’m in the IQ range of between 120 and 130 and my brain actively works different than average” kinda way. I did actually take an IQ test once and got 124 but it was administered by my classmate so not sure how accurate that is lol
literally my entire life tho, I’ve never known how to study successfully. I’ve never really had to. multiple choice testing was the weapon of choice for 90% of all classes taken up until grad school, and that’s just a basic recognition/rote memorization task. The occasional essay test was easy to prepare for because the essays were always on the thing you’d talked about the most in class. Or else they were English essays in which all you were doing was arguing a point.
Y’all may not have noticed, but I’m good at that :’D
Anyways. My point being, I never struggled with test taking. I got to grad school, and suddenly most tests were essays or performance tasks of some kind. And then, studying was necessary, but so much more engaging. Practicing writing essays or oral exams was so much more challenging. It held my attention.
...now I have to take this stupid psych GRE and it’s back to multiple choice tasks/rote memorization. For which all the common techniques are basic recognition tasks.
These are easy. These are not engaging. I’m using a flashcard and practice multiple choice test website right now and I am not taking in any of this information tbh. I’m getting all the answers right, but if you asked me to regurgitate the information I probably couldn’t do it outside that context.
Mostly I need to study cognitive psych and biopsych. Developmental, social, experimental, and obviously clinical I’m pretty good with. So I need a resource for those two things that doesn’t suck and actually keeps me engaged. but also isn’t overwhelming like I’m not gonna read an entire fucking textbook or something.
But I am finding this difficult.
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