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Psychology

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⇑Psychology at SWPS

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why study Psychology (Master's) at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS

Why study it:

Programme: applied psychology with a practical edge
Specialisation: two study tracks
Labs: research laboratories
After graduation: careers in both tracks

The Master's in Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw is a two-year full-time programme taught in English, with classes from Monday to Friday. It suits graduates in psychology or a related field who want to choose between a clinical and a business-oriented route.

Programme: applied psychology with a practical edge

The programme treats psychology as a discipline that aims to understand and improve the functioning of individuals, groups and societies. Courses range from Principles of Applied Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience to Psychotherapy, Counselling Skills and Advanced Clinical Diagnosis. Lecturers who are also practitioners focus on cognitive and behavioural approaches and show how the theory is used in real situations. The clinical track meets the European EuroPsy standard of education and professional training in psychology.

Specialisation: two study tracks

You indicate your track when you apply, and the curriculum differs depending on the choice:

Clinical Psychology: assessment, diagnosis and psychotherapy, with an emphasis on psychopathology in a relational context.
Business Psychology: psychology combined with organisations, technology and human-technology interaction, including industrial and organisational psychology.

Labs: research laboratories

Professional laboratories give you access to equipment for psychophysiological and behavioural research, including an eye-tracker, an electroencephalograph, a galvanometer and electromyography equipment.

After graduation: careers in both tracks

Clinical Psychology graduates can build careers in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, neuropsychology or behaviour analysis, depending on their track and professional certification.

Business Psychology prepares you for human resource management, user experience design, diversity and inclusion, consulting, education, and work in academia and research institutes. An Office of Career Services supports students on this path.

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

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We cannot describe how the mind is made without having good ways to describe complicated processes. Before computers, no languages were good for that. Piaget tried algebra and Freud tried diagrams; other psychologists used Markov Chains and matrices, but none came to much. Behaviorists, quite properly, had ceased to speak at all. Linguists flocked to formal syntax, and made progress for a time but reached a limit: transformational grammar shows the contents of the registers (so to speak), but has no way to describe what controls them. This makes it hard to say how surface speech relates to underlying designation and intent–a baby-and-bath-water situation. I prefer ideas from AI research because there we tend to seek procedural description first, which seems more appropriate for mental matters.

Marvin Minsky, in "Music, Mind, and Meaning" (1981)

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Despite the burgeoning technologies in the field of "helping", on many levels psychotherapy is still a crapshoot. Some of the goal of training, I think, is to help students accept that fact. The work is part science, part art, and part luck. Learning to tolerate the anxiety inherent in that recipe is critical for any clinician.

Martha Manning, in Undercurrents (1st edition ed.). HarperCollins. 1995. pp. p. 9

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The popular medical formulation of morality that goes back to Ariston of Chios, "virtue is the health of the soul," would have to be changed to become useful, at least to read: "your virtue is the health of your soul." For there is no health as such, and all attempts to define a thing that way have been wretched failures. Even the determination of what is healthy for your body depends on your goal, your horizon, your energies, your impulses, your errors, and above all on the ideals and phantasms of your soul. Thus there are innumerable healths of the body; and the more we allow the unique and incomparable to raise its head again, and the more we abjure the dogma of the "equality of men," the more must the concept of a normal health, along with a normal diet and the normal course of an illness, be abandoned by medical men. Only then would the time have come to reflect on the health and illness of the soul, and to find the peculiar virtue of each man in the health of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche‎‎, The Gay Science, § 120 “Health of the Soul”

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