Aug 30, 2014 | Articles
People often ask me why I choose to study psychology as it isn’t a popular subject. To be frank, psychology wasn’t my intended major at first during my undergraduate study either. In fact, it was “Primal Fear”, a movie that had caught my interest in understanding more about psychology—it was about how a young man was eventually sentenced not guilty in a murder case by faking schizophrenia and my curiosity was immediately caught by two questions—“Do schizophrenic people really have no memory about what they have done when the ‘other personality’ took place?” and “How many personalities at most can a single schizophrenic patient have?” Many people’s understanding about psychology is mostly about hypnosis and explaining dreams. As I understand psychology more in-depth, it is actually the scientific study of our mind and behavior, and that every action we take represents something we were thinking and a collection of behaviors can be interpreted as part of a personality. To me, psychology is a very interesting and inspirational subject and I am very lucky to have chosen it as my lifetime career. However, there is something I really want to let you all know—although I’m a psychologist, I DO NOT know what you are thinking right...
