The Top 5 WEIRDEST Psychological Theories

trying to explain human behavior can be quite difficult it's hard to know exactly what impacts our personality what could treat potential mental issues or why we evolve to do certain things and certain topics such as Consciousness and Madness can leave us utterly confused by The Mysteries of the Mind hence to be a good scientist one must apply a creative integration of various data points in order to explain such complex mental phenomena the end product of which we can call a theory an idea that attempts to frame how the world Works into a more conceptual understanding sometimes however theories can be more creative than empirically grounded here are five of the strangest psychological theories notably many of these have been discounted or have come under harsh criticism due to their implications more often than not it's a little bit of both Rd Lang is a polarizing figure in Psychiatry although he made great progress in criticizing the abusive institutions that treated mental health patients he also advocated for a theory that many Saw as quite dangerous Lang felt that Madness was a self-healing voyage and that one can discover themselves through losing themselves akin to those who take their first psychedelic trip laying imagined a world where everyone was allowed to go a little crazy and indulge in states of losing contact with reality he argued that this would lead to a happier population Lang established a house where he invited people suffering from schizophrenia to indulge in their psychotic episodes he reportedly even kept LSD in the fridge as a spiritual laxative in one case a patient named Mary Barnes underwent regression therapy where she returned to her infancy and smeared her feces on the wall she would learn from this experience that she loved painting and the Arts finding catharsis in her Madness however after two people jumped off of a roof Lang was forced to shut down his operations [Music] I've been trying to establish and maintain a skincare 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develops between close blood relatives who first meet as adults this theory was popularized by barbagano in which she developed feelings for her long-lost adopted son after meeting him as an adult notably the sun did not feel the same which kinda reflects the general authenticity behind this Theory although cited widely as an anecdote there are no studies that suggest that genetic similarity separation and attraction are correlated [Music] there is something kind of strange about really old writings take the Iliad for example whereas most modern books indicate that characters are thinking or have something on their mind there appears to be no evidence of mental activity in The Iliad and other books around the same time in fact many pieces of literature in this period appears to replace the act of thinking with hearing the voices of gods what is extremely peculiar is that this isn't seen as a strange thing Julian James argues that Consciousness specifically our ability to introspect is somewhat recent in our evolutionary history he believes that in the times of the Iliad the two hemispheres of the brain were not actually integrated thinking in our left hemisphere would be perceived as auditory hallucinations in the right the voices in our head we would mistake for gods although this is a difficult Theory to prove it does have some support in several scientific communities how did we become so smart and advanced compared to other animals according to Terence McKenna it's because we like to eat the stuff in cow poop specifically around 10 000 BC a period in which food was relatively scarce our ancestors were forced to search for new food sources they began following large herds of cattle who would have had insects in their dung more importantly their dung would have hosted the dung-loving magic mushroom McKenna posits that the low doses of magic mushroom which lead to heightened visual Acuity and thus better hunting as well as the high doses that lead to arousal and group bonding would have increased reproductive success he also believed that the high doses triggered language forming regions in the brain this theory has been criticized for lacking any evidence whatsoever although it is quite creative Wilhelm Reich may go down as the man who was too much even for Freud his obsession with sex basically characterized his entire theory of psychodynamics specifically Reich argued that everyone has some level of libido that is built up and very difficult to get rid of this buildup often led to neuroses those free from this buildup however experience what he called orgastic potency later on Reich believed that he had discovered a cosmic energy called Oregon energy that was an extension of Freud's idea of the libido this energy was in the soil and air and even manifested in beautiful blue phenomena such as the Northern Lights Reich attempted to harness this libidinal energy through creating the Caged boxes called orgone accumulators he would have naked patients that are suffering from schizophrenia or depression to sit inside these boxes and radiate them with orgone energy in order to cure them he would also later use orgone guns to shoot down UFOs with his son his theory of using Cosmic orgasm energy to cure mental issues has very little support [Music] thank you again to tiege Hanley for sponsoring this video please remember to check the links in the description box

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Published: Wed Oct 05 2022