Ok, some of you may know I'm a freshman in college studying psychology. I have some views after reading a lot of freaking theories and I decided I'd write an article about it. This is just a rough draft though and I'll try to complete it during my college years (using either empirical proof or simply using different theories backing my ass up).

Now, please, if you have anything I could improve about it, please do say so. Even grammatical errors. And yes, as of now it is quite amateuristic, but that's what you'd suspect from a freshman. Let me remind you again: It's a rough draft and nowhere near completion.

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When I started out as a freshman in college I was overwhelmed with all the different theories and backgrounds in psychology. How could all those different views lead to the best treatment in our line of work? That's the question that bothered me for a long time until I turned to my mother for advice. My mother, who had just finished a course of her own in system-therapy, told me something that made everything quite clear. "You see son, therapy is just an aid. The most important thing, not only in psychology but also in life, is to be able to connect to your clients".

Psychology has grown to be a battlefield much like politics. There are a number of different "camps" who keep firing at each other. We use critique as ammo. It's not wrong to try and improve other theories, but we should never discard them entirely. Psychologists, of all people, should never disrespect any conception. Because if we start doing so, the next step is disrespecting other human beings.

Psychologists are people. People need structure. Structure in both how we perceive ourselves as in how we perceive others. Psychologists feel the need, just like any human being, to be stereotyped. This is one reason why many of us try to follow one theory, we want to be able to tell ourselves and others who we are. And what way is easier to explain than our job? "I am a psychoanalyst", "I follow the theories of Roger", "Skinner made an huge difference in my perception of life". The reason these words are said are to tell others how we perceive life and how we project that on others.
Another reason why many psychologists specialise in one or two means of treatment is because there are simply way too many theories to specialise in. Not even mentioning how contradicting it would be to defend the theories of both Behaviorism and Psychoanalystic ways.

We are now at the era where we are starting to see flaws in these ways. Many psychologists use multiple theories to create their own personal style of treatment. But what does this lead to? That's right, it leads to even more theories, personal theories.
Even by writing this article I am as guilty as any other person who believes a theory to be the right one. We are way past the nature-nurture debate. We were all right, to some extent. We should start showing empathy for all these theories we disagree on, because there is truth among all of them.
We should learn to accept ourselves, our views. But we should also learn to accept the views of others. Do not close your eyes to these views, but learn from them. Every person has a different perception of life, if we accept these, we will come one step closer to understanding the psyche of the human being.

I need new music. New music to listen to. I was wondering if the kind NG user database could help me out. To find out what kind of music I like you can look on my favorite audio submissions here on newgrounds but here's also a list of bands I enjoy a lot:

1. Audioslave
2. Meat Loaf
3. Guano Apes
4. Good Charlotte (They have some awesome songs, but also some extremely lousy ones)
5. Guns N Roses
6. HelloGoodbye
7. Nickelback
8. Nirvana
9. Pink Floyd
10. POD
11. Queen
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Staind
14. Three Doors Down
15. Tower of Power
16. Vanilla Sky
17. Weezer

and my all-time favorite Breaking Benjamin (apart from them I enjoy Three Doors Down and Staind the most).

There are of course some bands I'm missing out on this, but it should give a general idea of the kind of music I'm into. So any of you people able to show me some new bands or perhaps new albums of one of the listed bands so I might check them out?

As a bunch of you may know I started the Dutch equivalant of college this year (one grade lower than university however still quite challenging). I'm in my seventh week now and I've got a week off. I've already given a couple of presentations and acquired some pretty high grades for a first-years student. After this week off I have my first real "test" about communication. Now I'm not really worried at all about this, it's easy for me, just comes natural which is why I chose this study in the first place. However in the tenth week (so in three weeks) my first testing period is here. It'll have 4 tests for me and a couple of essay's to turn in which shouldn't prove a difficulty.
Now my problem is, I got a lot to learn. Four tests don't seem much but one test alone has me studying 400 pages of raw information about psychology. This test will be made of 100 questions which I have to answer in 60 minutes (however all yes or no questions). I need to get 76 right or I'll fail. Now, I have been given a test to see what kind of questions will come up. Well, they're all about the goddamned details. Which is why I have already begun studying this shit (of course I've already read it all before except for one chapter which we will handle next week in class because it's tough as shit) however pumping 400 pages of detail in my head doesn't seem easy.
Apart from this there's another test about a book of roughly 200 pages all about the history of psychology. This test should be easier as it'll only be 30 "yes or no" questions. The other two tests are just pains in the asses, both about 100 pages of bullshit I don't care much for.
Now the main issue is of course the big-ass 400 page test. I lack the motivation to keep on studying. Apart from studying I'd like to use some of my free time for other things I haven't been able to do much lately, like hang out with my mates, with my girl or just chill. I finished for today at roughly 12 PM because my head is about to explode due me working through my communications test too much. I hardly touched my 400-page book yet as of last friday.

So I ask you, how do I motivate myself? This study is made for me, I'm sure of it, however after reading those questions I am shitting my pants because I knew roughly half of it, the half which was closest to what we discussed recently (so chapter 1, 2, 3 etc. I hardly remember the details from).

What do I do newgrounds?

Oh how I love them.

Discuss.

Hello all.

You probably all have nothing better to do if you're reading this damned little news post. So let me cut to the chase: I need a new profile picture which has the measurements for the site (212 pixels wide and 159 pixels high) and a new signature (599 wide by 50 tall) to match. To top it all off I want an icon (46x46) to match it all and a banner (770 pixels wide, 40-100 pixels high). Now the problem is, I suck at photoshop. Yes, I do. So I ask of you artists who are reading this and are obviously bored, because they are in fact reading this, please do create something for me. Something FABULOUS.

I have a picture of a profile pic I used to have which I find fabulous, for it is pink with hearts. I shall attach it for inspiration. Please do PM or mail me.

Thank you.

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