I feel psychology has way many ways to help us. If you happen to open to new things: - Personality psychology is insanely powerful and useful when it comes to

I feel psychology has way many ways to help us. If you happen to open to new things: - Personality psychology is insanely powerful and useful when it comes to understanding people / situations. An introduction to theories of personality Book by Robert B Ewen is gold. Have you ever had gut instinct about how someone acts/a phenomena but lacked the words to express it? A distrust/discomfort, déjà vu, or feeling someone is being motivated by dredging up an issue from their past and trying to recreate it with you, to "try it on" you like a Cinderella slipper? (Could be in a good or bad way) When you grasp the concepts, it can go well into looking at your family / upbringing, yourself, selecting a partner, personalities to distrust/avoid, etc. Also you may find yourself liking concepts from Freud / Jung / Adler / Horney / Bowlby+Ainsworth and so on. That alone can give you a more informed perspective on behavior. - Here's an example of professor using the above tools to dissect Twilight (haven't saw the movie or read it yet): Deconstructing Twilight: Psychological and Feminist Perspectives on the Series New edition Edition by Donna M. Ashcraft. She also written a personality theories workbook. - Object relations stuff is absolutely awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Myk352wMSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Myk352wMSs. IMO it's far easier to digest if you grasp psychodynamic theories above. - Projective identification: https://youtu.be/cBnZiP3W3ao?t=1215 https://youtu.be/cBnZiP3W3ao?t=1215 - You can then take it into individual (like schema therapy https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf) and family therapy methods (e.g. Bowenian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQOWoom2d0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQOWoom2d0) where the concepts on the stuff above occur