Talk:Psyche (psychology)

message: In the paragraph about etymology it mentions that the connototation of "breath" that the word "psyche" has in Greek, also exists in Chinese. There is however no mention of Hebrew, which does the same thing with the word "ruach" (רוח). The article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruach_(Kabbalah) also doesn't mention this and is clearly very relevant to freudian psychology. It would be nice to see people who are more educated on this matter as I am try to elaborate this point a bit more, as I feel that only having the Chinese there makes it look a bit like a coincidence and also that the Hebrew is much more relevant to Western psychology than the Chinese.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:4CDC:CC00:99DD:1150:EC7E:3672 (talk) 00:30, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: On Etymology

message: This article needs to be rewritten in more sober language as a theory, with names, quotes, sources, etc. Currently, it makes outlandish statements like, "Psyche is a non-material digestion organ that masters fear," as though they were fact -- that won't do at all for an encyclopaedia. 
Can anyone defend the article's text as it stands, or suggest suitable alterations? If not, maybe it should be reverted to the initial stub, which at least had the virtue of not overreaching itself. R Lowry 14:28, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: More sober rewrite recommended

message: Personally, I think much of what the article says just "sounds good", and has little other value. But not being very knowledgeable in the field of psychology, I'm really not qualified to judge it. 
--Avl 16:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: THe article is not scientific

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I removed the section "Consider" because it was a statement of someones personal opinion rather than an expression of facts. Such topics in my understanding, need to be given in the context of verifiable points of view from referenced historical and contemporary literature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.152.66 (talk) 22:37, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Section removed

message: The title of this article is "psyche (psychology" and yet the article covers only one school of psychology, namely psychoanalysis, which at present is a minority school. The article should be rewritten from the point of view of the general history of psychology, which includes ancient, medieval, and modern psychology. The discipline of psychology itself obviously refers to the concept of the psyche, but it does not follow from this that the discipline of psychology is wedded to psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalysis is one of many schools of psychology. The use of the word psyche in other schools of psychology and philosophy needs to be examined here - and other analogous words such as anima, soul, etc.Wwallacee (talk) 18:19, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs broader point of view

message: I'd like to offer a suggested change to this page but since I'm such a newbie I'd rather propose it here and see what other, more experienced, Wikipedians think. Here's my suggested change:
Instead of "Cognitive psychology" as the last section of the page, I suggest the following:
Contemporary view
The term mind has largely replaced "psyche" to describe the central mediating force in humans (and, perhaps, in other animals as well) that experiences thoughts, feelings, and perceptions and which instructs the body to respond to the external environment.  
I suggest the above because, in part, I don't think it's only cognitive psychologists who hold this view.
I wish I could cite references but the only one I could find is Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which offers this definition of "psyche":
"The mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior and consciously or unconsciously mediating the body's responses to the social and physical environment."
The reference for Stedman's is:
"psyche." The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 22 Jul. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/psyche>.
Although I think the Stedman's definition of psyche is pretty darn good, I assume that it's copyrighted so can't be used on a Wikipedia page. Is this correct?
Markworthen (talk) 02:04, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested change to Cognitive Psychology section