#bachelors psychology

[lunar-system]

The moment when Stede says the curse is real because the crew experiences it as real? That's literally how qualitative studies describe paranormal phenomena. It doesn't matter whether or not it's "real" in the natural scientific way, it's real in their reality and you gotta deal with it accordingly. It's so anachronistic to have Stede talk that way, this kind of research has existed for less than 50 years, ever since the discursive turn in social sciences. Loved it.

[spicyvampire]

Not only is he lying but also pretty sure that's not how therapy works, your cure really shouldn't be only a person, you need to overcome things yourself for the progress you make to last

[mithliya]

in what world in psychology a female-dominated field lmfao? literally all famous psychologists are moids.

in this world.

psychology is literally female-dominated lol. the fact that men get more acknowledgement can be found in most fields.

[2hoothoots]

Congrats on the sucessful enstabbening! Bet you're glad to get all that off your chest (heh).

I assume you can't do too much huge art stuff while waiting to heal up, but I would love to hear about your headcanons for the FSAU cast - be they favourites or just ones that makes you smile. How much of a menace was Raz for Lil and Doges when he went under the knife?

Take care - make sure you stretch appropriately and don't shrimp too hard over the keyboard while waiting to be freed from excercise-jail 💜🖤🤍

at this point i've had the "off your chest" joke four times. and it's just as funny every time lmao

he sure did!

he basically yote himself onto the operating table as soon as he turned 18, haha. he was an absolute nightmare during the recovery, though. it was at the time when Lili took a few years out from the psychonauts to go to college, and he kept calling her like "hey do you think it's okay if i go for a run as long as i don't move my arms too much. i was thinking i could hold them behind me like naruto" "raz you had surgery four days ago"

actually, since you asked about general headcanons, more rambling about that time of their lives under the cut!:

i've talked a little before about how Raz and Lili had a pretty tumultuous relationship during their teens, haha. i think around 17/18, things start to simmer down between them. they're still really close, but stuff's not as volatile, and they come to the decision that they want to take a break for a while. no matter how good friends they are, it can be kind of stifling to still be dating the same person you were when you were ten, y'know?

and like i said, this was also when Lili took a break from the Psychonauts. for me, one of the central anxieties of her character is figuring out who she wants to be outside of the Zanotto family's legacy and the expectations of everyone else. we see in PN1 she has kind of a skeptical view of the Psychonauts as a whole - but at the same time, it's the only world she's ever known. she's been training at the Motherlobe since she was a baby. she's spent her whole life immersed in this world, and i think she has a lot of big questions to ask herself as she enters adulthood: who am I? who do I really want to be?

so she takes a break to go study! i haven't decided exactly what, but i think she does something like a major in biological sciences and a minor in pharmaceuticals. she has a great time, and taking that time out ends up being what she needs to realise that actually she does want to stick with the Psychonauts. she and Raz go on their first mission together, things just click, and the rest is history hahaha

[honeygrahambitch]

Woke up at 4, caught a flight, changed a few means of transport, attended a lecture, napped for a few hours, did work related stuff and now thinking about finally ordering some food and calling it a day

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

Oh um I graduated college also

[sillycourtjester]

I constantly feel the need to get out of this fucking country but how do i get a college degree that guarentees i can use it internationally. Like the only thing i can think of is being a doctor and having a doctorate and thats so much money. It feels like im fucking trapped in america and i want out.

[sophieinwonderland]

I think sociology can have its uses too and would absolutely encourage those sorts of studies into systems.

But I do believe neurology and psychology have more advantages for the plural community.

First, in the syscourse debate, one of the most popularly parroted lines is that endogenic systems are "scientifically impossible." Psychology and neurology can combat that. And no, it won't instantly end all fakeclaiming. Not everyone will believe the science, as we can see with how many people still think vaccines cause autism. But it's a weapon we can utilize to start shutting anti-endos down.

Like, "fuck the public" is a cute sentiment. But when the public are actively fakeclaiming and harassing endogenic systems... I think maybe these issues need to be addressed so fewer endogenic systems get fakeclaimed and harassed. Just a thought. 🤷‍♀️

Anti-endos may never be completely eliminated, but scientific validation can at least ensure that they'll be relegated to the same status in the public eye as anti-vaxxers and flat-Earthers.

At another level though, tulpamancy is psychology. (At least, for the majority of tulpamancers who have a psychological view of it.)

It's admittedly a loose form of psychology with no budget, and it's based more on case studies than hard data. But it's psychology nonetheless.

We can use psychology to understand plurality and by extension, find better more efficient ways to make tulpas, refine our various tulpamancy skills, and come across new skills we hadn't considered before. Better, more refined tulpamancy methods can mean quicker results, which means fewer prospective tulpamancers give up part-way through the creation process, which means more successful tulpamancers, which means a larger group of endogenic plurals with more political power.

On the flip side, current research into tulpamancy is interested in how tulpamancy techniques could actually be used to learn about voice hearing and dissociative disorders. This research could hopefully prove helpful to the medical community in developing new treatments for these conditions.

A distant hope may even be that studies looking into the positive mental health of tulpamancers could eventually lead to clinical trials to treat disorders such as depression. And if it could provide a successful treatment method, that would be pretty awesome in my opinion.

Sociology is valid too and both types of research can co-exist and be valuable in different ways. But I thing between psychology and sociology, the former is going to prove the more useful field for plural research. And I think plural research will benefit the field of psychology too.

[masochisticmumblings]

good news for today: I graduate with my associates this fall

[songmingisthighs]

i'm fucking crying in my room because my 11 year old little brother suddenly texted me asking about my mental health and how he's worried about me and shit fam when he said "if you kermit swecede, me, meimei, and yaya will go insane" it fucking broke me and it kinda almost make me not give a fuck with the fact that the adults in my family hate me so much that they think i'm influencing their kids to do bad things when fact is i'm the only form of mental health support these kids have bc my family's answer to every fucking thing is "pray and read the bible" without giving any actual solution bc they can't be bothered to listen to childish problems that is so fucking real for those children rn

[worm-priest]

This is my hear me out moment

I think I will be a parasocial relationships defender for life because people tend to villanise the concept without really knowing how they work. People tend to think that parasocial relationships are only the instances where people stalk celebrities or want to kill themselves if their kpop bias reveals they are dating

But in reality parasocial relationships are classified by the idea that people in them are aware of the fact that these relationships are one sided and most people who interract with any celebrity fall in some way in a parasocial relationship. For a lot of people parasocial relationships are just a pretty healthy coping mechanism that lets them regulate their emotions by angaging with media they enjoy

This is just the natural effect of us using technology and our brains not knowing what a screen is. We know that the person isn’t actually talking to us but out brains don’t know this. Thats why we get attached to people in media.

The problem starts when the person in a parasocial relationship doesn’t know how to act in any social interaction online or offline. Because the parasocial relationship itself doesnt make you act “crazy” it just shows how you would act in any other relationships. Ofc they can become dangerous especially when people prey on emotionally unstable, socially anxious people to profit off of their emotional attachement (yes, kpop for example)

In a way its kind of like using substances. If you do it in moderation it can be fun and useful but relying on it too much can be harmful and take over your life

I would actually recommend reading any Tilo Hartmann’s publications on this topic because they’re super interesting

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

what if i cancel my graduation and add a second major rn and just completely fuck up my plans and decide to suffer through more school but w a different major for like another 3 years

[spicyvampire]

So I was thinking about your amazing post about Tharn, Doc, and Phaya. You thought that Tharn would have become a doc/nurse or something in the healing profession (which I completely agree with) if not for trauma. Which got me thinking about Doc Slowmotion and why he became a doctor of all things? Surely there would have been an easier job that would have allowed him access to Tharn's life. I think he took thought Tharn would become a doc or something like that which would have put him in perfect position to mentor and support Tharn. But instead Tharn took a hard left to becoming a cop straight to Phaya so Doc was like "fine I will be a doc that helps with cop cases?!?" I don't know if this made sense but wanted to share and thank you for your long detailed post. It was a great read and spot on.

Thank you, and I'm guessing that you are referencing to this post so I kinda have 2 answers for this I'll put them under keep reading too i'm sure they might get long again

AHEAD OF THE GAME

Before watching the whole show, I thought Dr Snake was a therapist to manipulate Tharn, like Tharn's parents died in an accident he survived at a young age, and at some point he was gonna need therapy for this, so at first I thought he went in there to keep being ahead of the narrative and have a prime view on everything going on Tharn wise what better way to make sure the one you want does exactly what u want by being literally being there to pick his brain when you need to? (honestly such an Hannibal move, that's why I keep saying this man got his PhD at Hannibal Lecter's school of psychiatry)

But this way of seeing this was always a bit fuelled by the fact that I wasn't sure if Snake, PhD was actually in love with Tharn, which frankly I stopped wondering when even the Abbot said it

I was like okay he does love Tharn, like so much he doesn't care what happens to his soul if he keep trying to play shoot the bird, I think doctor snake genuinely love this reincarnation of Wansarut a lot so much that it does change his motivations in the end (will talk about it in the post I'll make about it) so it might less be about manipulation and more about a good way to just be there and know everything going on first hand and honestly just care for Tharn

MENTOR

But what you said about him being Tharn's mentor is also an interesting take on what I said in my post, cuz yes I said Tharn would make more sense in the medical field because his soul is one of a healer and protector but I was also kinda flirting with the mediator aspect of him, and while yes I was thinking paramedic, doctor, er nurse or plain nurse, therapist would make just so much sense too cuz like let's just think about the way Tharn interact with every suspect on this show, it's always so compassionate, understanding and full of empathy, he is just always so emotionally intelligent like more than the rest of the Scooby Doo gang (like the only other one that comes close but maybe a not Tharn level I feel might be Thongthai) Remember Art situation with his ex Kao?

Tharn had such an accurate read on the man and it wasn't only cuz of his visions, after the interrogation Phaya was like why do you think Art didn't have anything to do with Kao's disappearrence and this (!!!!) was Tharn's answer

Not only was this an accurate read on Art's very confusing emotional state, but also he knew exactly what Art was feeling not only because of his vision but because of his emotional intelligence and also

He understands Art not only because of his good read on the man but also what he is saying is like exactly what Tharn is living with Phaya, they both love each other, they know they love each other, but they cannot be together, it's why Ioved this part of Art's case, because you can literally see Tharn's emotional intelligence and make clear parallels between that case and what PhayaTharn are living

Also the fact that he immediatly ask to free Art after they find out he probably didn't cause Kao to disappear, he is the only one to do it

So yeah I think seeing Wansarut's whole character description of being a healer/a protector/a mediator, Doctor Snake might have thought he would become a therapist and put himself there to be Tharn's mentor, and he would have been right, Tharn would have made an excellent therapist (or social worker), but got fucked up because well Tharn's life kinda changed direction when his parents got murdered in that car accident, but still decided to stayed there because by that time, he was friend enough with Tharn for it to not be weird to still be there even when Tharn stopped seeing him as a therapist (this also work with the whole ahead of the game part tbh)

And helping on cop case was probably a coincidence cuz I'm not sure if he knew that Art was going to have a relapse (but again I wouldn't put it past him to have provoked that to insert himself in the cop atmosphere, Hannibal style)

[mithliya]

people do not take psychology or neuroscience seriously and it shows!!! would u be arguing with engineers about engineering? architects about architecture? cellists about the cello? no??? then why on earth are u acting like those of us who studied psychology and/or neuroscience dont somehow have knowledge and introspection into our fields that u as someone with 0 educational background in the field lack... like ive been studying this for Years but ok im sure u spending ur free time reading research papers while lacking any of the foundational understanding and background knowledge necessary to correctly interpret psych & neuro research is the same.

[scullydubois]

I’m gonna be so real with y’all…grad school might ACTUALLY be the answer to my problems

[honeygrahambitch]

I think I finally programmed my brain to respond in a positive yet related to Hannibal way to stressful times. My winter exams start next Wednesday so my anxiety is bubbling and I was doing some statistics shit that I couldn't get and I started spiraling and then a voice in my head said "You know, Will, you worry too much" and it really helped 😭