Psychology

The word psychology is formally defined as:

“The science that defines the behavior of human”. Behavior consists of three aspects.

Cognitive processes:  this includes what and how a person thinks.

Emotional states: This includes what a person feels, and what makes them feel that way.

Actions: this includes what a person does and what causes them to do something particular way.

If we put all these together, we can see that psychology studies how people think, feel and act.

From the American Oxford Dictionary:

The word "psychology" is the combination of two terms - psyche (soul or mind) and  logy (study). The derivation of the word from Latin gives it this clear and obvious meaning: 

A situation or activity (the pie of crime) 

American Heritage Dictionary: 

1. The science that deals with mental processes and behavior. 
2. The emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual or group. 

These definitions have further altered the true meaning. In actual practice, modern psychology deals almost exclusively with physiology (genetics) and the behavior of the biological organism (stimulus-response), completely disregarding and ignoring the mind (man's inner self, and more to the point, man's true and vital self). The dictionaries will sooner or later remove the concept of "mind" completely from the definition following the lead of "official" psychology as taught in western universities and colleges. The dictionaries are written by members of the educational establishment, and the educational establishment is entrenched in modern psychological theories. Let's return to the correct definition of the word.

 The word, psychology would involve the study of man's invisible world as described above, and nothing else. By definition this is what the study would deal with. This is not an opinion or bias - this is according to exactly what the word means and nothing else. Of course, relations to behavior could be studied, but the subject in itself, by definition is the stud The mind has been examined, studied, drilled and "expanded", at times to the point of excruciating detail (i.e. Tibetan Buddhist Yogic practices), within many fields. This is not to say that due to language barriers and the passage of time, that the information has not been lost to some degree or that these studies weren't without errors, flaws, bias and opinion in the first place. The point is not whether any of these are perfect studies or completed the task of researching the mind, but that the possibility of such a study exists has been done before in various ways and degrees, and that modern psychology (and psychiatry) has nothing to do with the study of the soul or mind. 

This meaning has been altered over the years until today; this is not what the word means at all. The subject of psychology, as studied in colleges and universities, currently has very little to do with the mind, and absolutely nothing to do with the soul or spirit. 

Let's see what a few dictionaries have to say and how a word could alter and lose its true and actual meaning. 

"Psyche" is defined as: 

1. The spirit or soul. 
2. The human mind. 
3. In psychoanalysis, the mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior. 

And defining "soul", we have: 

1. The spiritual or immortal elements in a person. 
2. A person's mental or moral or emotional nature. 

Most of us would agree we have a "psyche" per the above definitions in the sense of "mind", thought, and emotions. Most would also agree they have a "soul" per the second definition above relating to man's mental, moral or emotional nature. We might all have different notions about what these ultimately are, but few could sanely disagree they exist. 

For thousands of years psychology existed under the name of philosophy. The Hindu Vedas contain the oldest record of man's examination of mind and spirit. In India all forms of Yoga, which are essentially psychology, are described as one of the six systems of philosophy. Sufi teachings, which again are chiefly psychological, are regarded as partly religious and partly metaphysical. In more modern times systems, still largely following in this same vein, can be found the subjects of Rosicrucian’s, New Thought, Science of Mind, and Scientology. 

 To get a better "feel" for this term think of it as the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body. 

We are not dealing with opinions or beliefs here. This is simply what the words and terms mean. Get clear on this first and understand what the words and terms mean, before you start getting into the opinions of others on the subject. If you choose to decide the "mind" refers to nothing real after understanding what the words and definitions mean, despite the fact that almost 10,000 years of thinking men have seriously and carefully looked into this subject, and after no real investigation on your own part, that's your decision. Also, realize you will be basing this decision on "thinking" and "reason", both of which are only subsidiary to and part of any one mind, and neglecting to use a greater aspect of your mind - your personal awareness and direct observation. Basing a decision on what other people say about a mind involves only concepts and ideas about a mind. Observation involves experiencing the mind itself - your own mind. 

I doubt any of us would suggest we don't have a mind, awareness, thoughts or feelings even though none of these things can be detected or perceived with the physical senses or "scientific" measuring gadgets. We don't immediately run off and deny their existencedoes exist.  and we correctly assume others have similar minds, thoughts, feelings and emotions. They do. Modern psychologists and psychiatrists, for all practical purposes, completely deny every aspect of the invisible world known to you as your mind. It is invisible to physical detection, but it

In a very real manner all problems with any mind, such as things psychiatry calls "depression", "anxiety", "compulsive disorder", "Attention Deficit Disorder" (ADD or ADHD), and even "suicidal ideation", are ultimately and solely uncontrollable aspects of one's own mind which intrude upon the person's awareness. It's not that these things don't exist in some way, but they don't exist in the way psychiatry understands and claims to solve them. A better way to handle these problems would be to assist the person to increase control over the content of their own mind. There are many ways to do this, although they have never been all pulled together, adequately investigated, codified and organized into a straight-forward workable compilation of methods. Modern "science" has simply discarded the notion of the mind and the invisible world, and from that point on, never bothered to investigate it closely with the aim to understand, solve or improve it. 

First, this invisible world is totally real. It is not imaginary or a hallucination. My invisible world isn't directly real to you, and your invisible world isn't directly real to me, but they are each real nonetheless. The person who wants to argue this fact is simply a fool, dull, unable to comfortably observe his own mind (because it is possibly filled with degraded and evil things), and probably addicted to the objects of physical sensation and perception to the exclusion of everything else (a modern materialist). 

Second, this "invisible" world of mind involves many different aspects, functions and potentials. Imagination, attention, intellect, awareness, intention, reason, wills, responsibility, memory, and many other things exist in each of us. They are a vital and important part of us - some might venture to say some of these things ARE us. There is much to each of these areas and a short essay cannot begin to even scratch the surface of their nature, functioning, possible development and capabilities. But they definitely do exist and deserve recognition and attention. Any subject calling it "psychology" would have to address these things in detail. The failure of modern psychology and psychiatry to do so is glaringly apparent. These subjects now only address behavior, physiology, genetics and biochemistry, and the mind is of no concern.

Some of this may be hard for some readers to understand or accept because an actual study and involvement with the mind isn't done at all under the current subject of psychology. It's strangely absent from most modern concepts of Man. The concept has been largely eradicated from the "modern world view". The notion of the mind and related ideas about it has been falsely equated to "religion", "spiritualism" or "mysticism". We each have a mind. You know it, and I know it. We each experience it and its many various aspects as mentioned above. This is very simple and straight-forward.