Can you think yourself happy?
It’s an age-old quest: The desire to understand human nature so we can help people with psychological disorders. While some assert that happiness is not an allusive art, and that is a practice that can be mastered, it would seem we still have some way to go in mastering the “happy state”.
Want to better understand pop psychology in order to better understand yourself and others? Psychologist Andrew Francis is the instructor of Foundations of Psychology (IntroPsy) – a free online course through Open2Study. Laying a foundation for understandings and further study in psychology, the course covers how psychologists go about conceptualising and studying human nature, and how the brain works to produce thoughts, emotions and complex behaviour.
The World Health Organization predicts that depression will become the largest global health burden by 2030.The course looks closely at how psychologists approach the diagnosis and treatment of the “common colds” of psychopathology – anxiety and mood disorders. If you’d like to take part in this course, it’s completely free and available online. Check it out here or watch this course preview now.