The Sanctuary
Ego => Head Shrinkers => Topic started by: LiquidIce on September 22, 2014, 12:02:04 am
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Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays set the tone by transplating psychology into modern advertising, a field he referred to as “the engineering of consent”; (...)
In the U.S., John Watson, a president of the APA, taught behavioral techniques to mass marketers after losing his professorship at Cornell University. Hugo Munsterberg, an early APA member, started industrial psychology by writing Psychology and Industrial Efficiency in 1912. “The psychological experiment,” he wrote, “is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.”
Source: http://www.chalquist.com/apa.html
It's a short read, but suddenly the blocks clicked into place for me. I've heard of Skinner and Bernays, probably on Skilluminati Research when it was still up, but this article connects everything into one whole: most of psychology isn't aimed at fixing people, it's aimed at making them conformist little piggies. Does anyone here study psychology or is a professional psychologist? Are tin foil hats the only ways to block these fucks from fucking with our heads?
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I don't think anyone is trying to classically condition you.
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psychology is for people without an identity and knowledge of self, that's why the only people who go into it are naive and slutty girls and boring guys who lack a distinct personality and identity