What is this passage\'s summary? Psychology studies areas related to the mind su

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Psychology studies areas related to the mind such as mental illness and the impact of heredity and environment on behavior. Sigmund Freud was a pioneer in exploring mental illness. One of Freud's major contributions to the field was his design of a method for assisting people in understanding their problems. The method was called psychoanalysis and it consisted mainly of the psychologist "allowing" a person to feel comfortable enough to say anything that came to mind. It was called the "talking cure" and that is exactly what it was. Talk long enough with a non-judging person (the psychoanalyst), saying whatever comes to mind-no holds barred and you will eventually discover the source of your fears and anxieties. Freud would say that with the psychoanalyst providing insight and making connections, the patient makes the "unconscious" become "conscious." The idea was that, having discovered the source of a particular problem (always some traumatic situation from childhood) persons could free themselves from burdens of fear and guilt associated with these deeply buried memories Psychology also examines the influence of upbringing and heredity on a person's behavior. Undoubtedly, you've heard both: a sixteen year old is arrested for robbery and some will say, ‘that kid was born bad." Others will say, "it's his rotten home life." When people make these statements they are identifying one of the very basic questions studied in the field of psychology: that is, whether heredity or environment is more important in determining the behavior of an individual The heredity/environment question-- sometimes called "nature versus nurture"- has been researched for many years by psychologists trying to understand the best ways to help people in their daily living. Psychologists have studied, for example, whether or not always picking up a crying baby helps or hurts the child's adjustment later on (an environmental effect.) And they have studied intelligence scores for people (effects of heredity) and discovered that early, sound nutrition and health care have a definite effect on these scores (environmental effects)

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Summary of passage :- Basically, this whole passage is about the role of heredity and environment of an individual which is a reason of an individual behaviour in which its include first paragraph about how sigmund freud studies about the mental iilness and behaviour of an individual when they supress there thought , it brings lot of changes in behaviour of an individual and also about psychoanalysis and talk therapy. Another, paraghraph is about upbringing and heredity play important role in development and finally last paraghraph tell about the nature vs nurture with the research done by many psychologist.

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