So Amy, why are you interested in Psychology?

If you ask someone why they want to study Psychology have given me a plethora of reasons...

“Oh because of Derren Brown and his ability to appear to read minds by subliminal messages” – well surely this goes not dignify Psychology as a scientific discipline. And if we want to see Psychology through the eyes of our television screen then surely the right places to look are not near the “popular Psychology” (Psychology in its loosest sense) but the place to look is in fact everywhere else. Even Big Brother had behavioural experts who made reference to evolutionary Psychology to make reference to the motives for arguments. Show me a person who is not interested in the human condition and I will show you a liar!

“Oh I had an experience where my Mum’s friend had depression and ever since I wanted to help” – There has honestly been no emotional or anecdotal trigger to my fascination. (This is not to say that nothing has happened, but there is a stronger rooting for Psychology in my heart than this). I honestly cannot trace back to when and where and why this originated from. It almost seems innate. Our minds make the world go round. Case studies such as those explored in “A Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat” where Sacks really sympathetically gives us a very descriptive insight into individuals lives and how the brain can control someone’s entire understanding on the world. For example he explains a man who has lived his life on a tilt, his centre of gravity is completely skewed. He has no idea of this until he is shown a video of him walking on a slant.

Maybe it was luck? I consider myself lucky to be given the opportunity to take Psychology GCSE but even before then I knew I wanted to take it. Surely because I am human and I behave, I percieve, I live and I interact with others, I should want to know about the human condition.