Mental problems are the cross-cutting contents of brain science, psychology, biology, medicine, physics, information science, cognitive science, computer science, philosophy and many other disciplines. Therefore, the knowledge about the mind is not a single subject that can be studied and explained.
However, the research results of various disciplines on the mind have created one garden after another for us. Reading books on various subjects, I feel that I am standing at the door of the secret realm and looking around, as if I saw a faint light. Now I will introduce you to the light I saw at the door of this secret field.
Philosophy, which existed more than two thousand years ago, began to ask the question of "who am I" two thousand years ago. The characteristic of my philosophical knowledge is that it is philosophical to deduce another abstract concept from one, but it is difficult to guide concrete practice. For example, in chapter 15 of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, there is a sentence "turbid is flat, empty is clear". What does it mean? It's just a cup of turbid water. If you want to make it clear, don't touch it, it will gradually clear up. This principle can be used in many places. For example, our negative emotions are a turbid glass of water. The more we incite, the worse the situation will be. Accepting it will calm you down soon.
Medicine, I have no medical background knowledge. The medicine I have learned is to see a doctor. If you are ill, you can see a doctor (including a psychologist). Doctors can help you relieve physical and psychological pain. Its knowledge is problem-oriented and belongs to post-remedial nature. Two years ago, a colleague of mine was hospitalized because of a brain tumor. Before he was admitted to the hospital, he could still walk and talk. After a brain operation, the tumor was not removed, but it affected the language nerve and motor nerve. He has been unable to move or talk for two years, and the treatment activities are extremely risky. This is also the reason why family members have to sign before major surgery.
Psychology, because the university studied computer and information science, initially rejected psychology and felt too idealistic, subjective and emotional. Later, with the increase of social experience, I found that too many things (including happiness) are based on subjectivity and feelings, rather than the results of complex calculation and accurate information processing, so psychology has an important position in my mind.
A large number of psychological books, psychological experiments and psychological models make us understand what people are like, but changing or adjusting ourselves is another matter.
Neuroscience, I pay attention to the content of this field because of the N of NLP, which studies two objects: brain and consciousness. For non-neurologists, the knowledge of this subject is a bit high-end and difficult to understand. It's just that so many conceptual terms mentioned in it make us confused, such as amygdala and cerebral cortex. My first thought is eating. Brain science tells me that one is responsible for emotional emotional response and the other is responsible for rational thinking response. We often say that the struggle between emotion and reason is, in the final analysis, the amygdala and the cerebral cortex are fighting for control. Another example is dopamine and endorphins. When I first read it, I listened to the gobbledygook.
NLP, a science that makes people successful and happy, originated from psychotherapy, developed in physical and mental growth and positive psychology, and some evolved into inspirational and successful science. The knowledge involved is a bit mixed. The three letters stand for nerve, language and program respectively, and the Chinese name is neuro-linguistic program. The related skills are quite practical. However, there is a problem. The knowledge it teaches stops at the point, so that learners know it but don't know why. Methods or skills, if not used for a long time, are easily forgotten because they don't know the way behind them.
Stories about the mind
Regardless of philosophy, neuroscience and psychology, using a single subject knowledge to explain complex mental problems can only be a glimpse of the whole leopard.
From 65438 to 0879, Feng Te established the first German psychological laboratory and began to explore the question of "Who am I" with empirical methods. But interestingly, Feng Te, the founder of psychology, refused to admit that he was a psychologist until his death, because at that time, the only way to study consciousness and mind was to use the "introspection method", that is, to let the subjects report their own thinking process and inner feelings. This is a very objective research method and is often despised by people.
By the end of the 20th century, the rapid development of computer technology brought about the progress of brain imaging technology, which allowed people to guess whether this part was activated according to the blood flow in the brain, and then combined with the loss of a certain function caused by brain injury in medical clinic, the function represented by the activation of this area was obtained, and a person's inner thinking situation was pieced together. So we saw and explained the long-standing philosophical or psychological point of view:
Such as duplicity. What he said does not agree with what he thought. That's what a polygraph does.
For another example, delicious. When a man sees a beautiful woman, his brain will activate in the same place as when he eats chocolate.
Another example is love and desire. The activation area of love in the brain is different from that of lust in the brain. For women, the love brain area is activated first, and then the lust brain area. This is what we often say that women are born of love; But the difference between men is that the lust brain region is activated first, and then the love brain region is activated. So, men, because they want to have love.
For another example, phase is born of heart. A person's face before the age of 35 is decided by his parents, and his face after the age of 35 is decided by himself. It is polite to greet people with a smile, but people have been in the Jianghu for a long time, and many people's smiles are just skin-to-skin smiles, which is different from when they are really happy. These two kinds of smiles are different neural mechanisms at work. A really happy smile will change your appearance in a kind direction for a long time, but a fake smile won't. Also, if you frown, sigh, gnash your teeth and lose your temper every day, the neural mechanism behind it will slowly change your appearance in the direction of a bitter face or a full face. Therefore, if someone praises you as beautiful or handsome after the age of 35, you must be a kind-hearted and happy person.
For another example, people want to live forever. Now the research on longevity finds that apart from genes, the most important thing is social support, that is, caring for each other. People who live a quiet and happy life live longer. In other words, happy people tend to live longer.
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