Structure of the human psyche

Our brain is far from being fully understood, there are so many curls in it that it seems that scientists of the whole world will suffice them for many hundreds of years. When Pavlov opened the eyes to the world for conditioned reflexes, this seemed to be the brilliant limit of perfection, and his followers have no interest in this phenomenon, now conditioned reflexes are worthy of school textbooks on biology.

The structure of the human psyche is mysterious, but still something is already known. We will talk about these exact data.

Mental phenomena

The structure of the human psyche is divided into three main groups of mental phenomena:

Mental processes are the most dynamic and changeable part of our psyche. Mentally, processes reflect the external reality in the form of various psychic phenomena. Including, it can be cognitive phenomena - thinking, memory, sensation, attention . There may be strong-willed phenomena - efforts, courage, decisions, and emotional ones, which are expressed by different experiences.

It is clear that none of these phenomena, in the norm is not permanent.

Mental states are already more stable compound structures of the psyche and consciousness. In simple terms, it's your activity or passivity. It is manifested, for example, at work - today you easily perform the same work over which the whole past day has been tormented. These are couples: distraction - attention, irritation - delight, enthusiasm - apathy.

And the third essence of the psyche and its structure are mental properties. The most stable and established part of our psyche, responsible for the quality of our activities on an ongoing basis. That is, this is what is characteristic of a given individual on an ongoing basis. Character, principles, temperament , goals, attitudes, talents are all, properties of this category.

Biology or sociology?

Man is a biosocial being, therefore any research of his psyche, without going into the "The reverse side of the coin", are vain. The structure of the psyche and the process of individualization depend on society, but, nevertheless, many mental illnesses have a genetic (that is, purely biological) character.

The study of "both sides of the medal" deals with neuropsychology - a science that explores the relationship of the anatomical structure of the brain with the psychological structure of a person. What are the fruits of this science: it turned out that the same defective cells of the brain can lead to different diseases, and the cause of different mental disorders may be the same cells. That is, science still has something to do.