Psychology Development in Chine

History and Systems of psychology
PSYC 331
Dr. Bihan Al Qaimari

Midterm Paper
“Development of Psychology in China”

Name: Ahmad Shiber
Student number: 1071843
Introduction:
When we started this class, we started learning the history of psychology, its theories, and its development. I couldn’t help but notice that the course curriculum is focused on European and American psychologists and their theories, which gives us a very westernized view of psychology and the nature of humans and their humanity.
Studying psychology from a western point of view also limits the horizons of applying psychology and how it explained since it will be connected to mainly western church ideologies and financial and political systems are in the west like capitalism and democracy.
I developed an interest in far eastern cultures four years ago studying the common religions in that region basics of languages spoken there, and I even started studying the Japanese language as a second language. Thus, I was interested of how these cultures saw psychology and compare their psychological thinking with Greek and Islamic psychological thinking and philosophy which was covered in class. I was amazed by the sheer amount of knowledge these cultures had offered in psychology and I was disheartened on how it is almost never mentioned in psychology classes or when mentioned it gets marginalized.
Of all the cultures that constitute the Far East, I chose China. In this paper I will discuss the development of psychology in this country from its historical roots till the modern day, along with all the ups and downs of this field. I hope to shed light on the amazing contributions to the psychology field in particular, and to humanity in general.

Attachment: a brief description of Chinese culture of well being.

The Historical Roots:
Modern psychology was brought to China from the West in the late 1800s, but the study and discussion of psychological issues had a long history in ancient

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