Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thanks for another fun week in this new year of interacting with so many people. It's been an absolute pleasure. This is the highlight of my week, enjoying to do this podcast. Julie's laughing in the background because she says I was waiting to the last minute but I do as our population has grown

I've become more diligent with thinking of topics and responding to people's requests so

a heartfelt thank you to everyone who follows our program and I'm slowly figuring out

Instagram and I post some things and Julie's like

what are you posting and she makes me take that down so we're we're getting there it's a fun

process but I know there's a lot of people um and I think this this episode uh will touch on a lot

of different topics there's a lot of people who follow us who are

in the field of mental health and who are whether they're actively practitioners or they are

currently a lot of current students and an overwhelming consensus was can you kind of share what this whole field of psychology is about?

The advantages between myself and Julie, we represent the three dimensions of psychology because as a neuropsychologist I have the background in

diagnostics and testing very well trained in cognitive real therapy and

Julie has a strong training in psychotherapy as well and obviously psychopharmacology

so whether or not she pops on that's kind of her style she ebbs and flows throughout the house

uh so the field of psychology uh i remember my doctoral program taking a course in the history of

psychology which is really cool uh and it goes back you know way beyond Freud um and ad and Young. It goes back to the ancient Greeks.

You know, something we use in cognitive therapy is the Socratic Dialogue, how Socrates

used to speak and lecture and teach, even though he was eventually poisoning with Hemlock,

but that's a separate story in the middle itself and you know

throughout the evolution of of the field they would do things like timpening which was

people thought that you know at that time you were possessed by evil spirits they

would drill a spike into the skull and the spirits would dissipate. We look at, if they ever watch old

movies from Bellevue, people chained to beds and hosed down with cold showers. I think we look

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