PSYCHOLOGY

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Definitions

1. Webster's International Dictionary of the English language 1829 defines "psychology: a discourse or treatise on the human soul; the doctrine of the nature and properties of the soul." Webster's High School Dictionary 1892, "psychology: the powers and function of the soul." Merriam Webster's 3rd International Dictionary 1961, "psychology: the science of mind or mental phenomena or activities; the study of the biological organism (as man) and the physical and social environment." Somewhere along the way, man lost his soul! We pinpoint when and we find Professor Wundt, 1879, being urged by Bismarck at the period of German's greatest militarism, trying to get a philosophy that will get the soldiers to kill men, and we find Hegel, the II great" German philosopher, the idol of super-Socialists, stressing that war is vital to the mental health of people. Out of this we can redefine modern psychology as a German military system used to condition men for war and subsidized in American and other universities at the time the government was having trouble with the draft. A reasonable discourse on why "they" had to push psychology would of course be a way of redefining an already redefined word, psychology. WO PL 5 Oct 71)

2. you're either trying to create or generate, handle, control and so forth, human emotion and reaction. The whole field of public relations, no matter how many little compartments it's got is actually occupying that zone and area, and that is the subject if you've got to have one called psychology. (FEBC 2, 7101C18 SO I)

3. mainly used for testing aptitude or intelligence. It has counseling as part of its activities but is more concerned with and financed for warfare. (HCO PL 23 May 69)

4. defined this way: psyche-ology; spirit, study of. (AHMC 1, 6012C31)

5. that body of practice devoted to the creation of an effect on living forms. It is not a science since it is not an organized body of knowledge. In actual use it is a dramatization of Axiom 10, wholly reactive. In this wise the word can be used by Scientologists, and this definition can be used legally to prove Scn isn't psychology. (HCOB 22 Jul 59)

6. the study of the spirit (or mind) that came into the peculiar position of being a study of the spirit which denied the spirit. (PAB 82)

7. a study of the brain and nervous system and its reaction patterns. (ASMC 3, 5506C03)

8. an anglicized word, not today true to its original meaning. Psychology is composited from psyche and ology, and psyche is mind or soul, but leading psychological texts begin very, very carefully by saying that today the word does not refer to the mind or to the soul. To quote one, it "has to be studied by its own history," since it no longer refers to the soul, or even to the mind. So we don't know what psycholoa refers to today. (PXL, p. 2)

9. the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanism and its code word was "man to be happy, must adjust to his environment." In other words—man, to be happy must be a total effect. (2ACC lB, 5311CM17)