Psychologist's Day. 🧭

“I’ll do everything I can so that one day I can say, without embarrassment, the words of James Hollis: ‘I devoted my life to the practice of teaching, education, communication, and psychotherapy — all for the sake of serving human needs and the idea of improvement.’” (An excerpt from my motivational letter when applying to the Faculty of Psychology at St. Petersburg State University.)

For me, a psychologist is first and foremost an explorer. As E. Fromm said:

“Every new discovery involves risk, and risky undertakings require not only a certain degree of inner confidence but also a zest for life, something found only in people for whom life is more than a process of reducing tension and eliminating pain. To lower the general level of stupidity, what we need is not more ‘intellect’ but a different type of character: independent, enterprising people in love with life.”

This is how I see a true psychologist: an independent, enterprising person in love with life!

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ψ. Psychology is for those who see through lies and deception.
ψ. Who want to understand — and be understood themselves.
ψ. Who aren’t motivated by mediocrity and the “black screen.”
ψ. Who get what’s going on and therefore don’t want to live in a VAMP society.
ψ. Even if the hedonistic principle ruled there forever!
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Older colleagues tell me: your view of psychology is way too romanticized.

Yeah, no… you were simply taught to live without fairy tales or beliefs.
But deep in the forest Pan is playing his pipes.
I hear the trill no matter how many masks he tries on.
Give me a ukulele,
I’ll bang out a tune so hard the whole oikoumene loses its f*cking mind.
The sky fogged over, the tree rustled in time —
In this act Psyche made herself immortal.
Can you pull that off?