According to a UNICEF survey, 43% of French teenagers
are in a state of “psychologic suffering”. That is what Le Monde was telling us in September 2014. A lot of them don’t feel
safe in the society in which they grow up, mainly because of the material or
social difficulties they often meet, the new ways of living, and also the
terrorism threat which is frightening. Even if that global feeling from the
youth isn’t always (and for everyone) as dramatic as it looks, it still is one
of the reasons why today’s world requires psychologists and people who are
interested in human behaviour. They aren’t all practitioners; some of them work
as researchers for governmental or non-governmental organisations. We can
notice than some of them focus not only on human behaviour but also on animal behaviour.
Psychologists notice many new fears, not only among teenagers:
depression, addiction, phobias, anxiety, degenerative brain diseases are some of
the various topics they have to study and solve, as a freelancer or in a
medical team or a university research team. Moreover, psychologists should have
a great knowledge of the functioning of society; they have to keep an eye open
on the entire world to help the people targeted to overcome their problems. Actually,
I believe that communication with the rest of the world is very important on
psychology, contrary to what we may think, the purpose doesn’t consist on
focusing on a person to help him, but also on analysing his environment, our
world, and how it works. This is a very close to the work of sociologists and
even philosophers.
Psychology is an interesting profession in many
aspects. Mrs I. K. Louédec explains that the human contact, the satisfaction of
helping others, the new knowledge about people’s behaviours are the main
reasons why she loves her job. But she also recognizes that it has some bad sides,
because sometimes it can be really hard to take over someone’s pain. Personally,
I think she is right saying that, but I also think that we must have a very
strong ability of reflexion and introspection, and most of all we have to be
open-minded to be a psychologist.
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Elora MAZZINI wants to become a psychologist.
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