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.