Psychology
Psychology is the normie exploration of the mind. inherited
That is the inherited line. It uses a word this wiki has since retired — see Hylics — and it is left in place because the record is the record. firsthand · Gershon
We run on it
The dismissal is difficult to maintain while using the discipline's vocabulary for load-bearing work. contested
Mind Divers is the clearest case. The practice is described on this wiki as locating and interrogating the Shadow — a term this wiki did not coin, attributed on that very page to Jung, taken over without modification, and doing the entire explanatory job of the entry. We did not borrow a convenient label. We borrowed the concept and then called the field that produced it a normie pastime. inherited
It is not the only case. Much of what the wiki says about repression, projection, the parts of a person that surface without permission, and why a mind can hold something it cannot look at directly, is psychology's, arriving here through several removes and usually unattributed. unverified
What is actually being claimed
Once the contempt is removed, the disagreement is narrow and stateable. contested
Psychology describes the mind as closed — whatever happens in there arises in there, from a person's history, structure and circumstances. This wiki holds that it is not closed, and that some of what arrives has a source outside the person. Everything else on this wiki is downstream of that single difference. unverified
Note what the difference does not license: nothing in it makes the psychological account wrong about the material it covers, which is nearly all of it. Affliction holds that no test distinguishes the two readings, and Psychiatry sets out why the better-sourced discipline is not this one. contested