But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.