
Explore how Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences reframes intelligence beyond IQ, covering linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal styles.
Examine how violence is a choice, guided by obedience to authority, personal responsibility, and group dynamics, with Milgram's study and policing as focal points.
Explore Erick Erickson's ideas on growing up, the moratorium concept and gap year, and how space and social change shape healthy versus unhealthy adulthood and institutions.
Explore the collective unconscious and archetypes through Jung and Freud, linking personal and collective mind, and show how social psychology shapes group behavior and human cooperation.
Explore how a healthy ego balances id and superego, navigates defense mechanisms against anxiety, and sustains mental health amid reality, the outside world, and social institutions.
Students will get academic lectures and essays explaining the importance of the following concepts: Id, Ego And Super Ego (Anna Freud), Multiple Intelligence (Howard Gardner), The Collective Unconscious (Carl Jung), Violence By Ordinary People (Stanley Milgram), Psychological Age And Maturity (Erik Erikson). This course aspires to provide these concepts as guidance toward sanity during these socially transitional times. The personal and collective mind will always be the foundation of our social order. We need to improve our mental health more today than we ever have. I have studied different eras and I have never seen more clinical insanity in our social order. The bitterness is so thick in the air, that you can feel it. Parents have lied to their children, leaving them less developed. Violence can happen at any time in any place in any American city or town. The information age demands that we use every intelligence possible, or fall into mental disrepair. The 21st century has a lot of human beings that functioning on raw Id, without much an Ego or Super Ego. You can be sitting next to a sociopath or psychopath at any given moment, and it is important to know how to interact with these people. The challenge for all of us is to build a collective conscious that can maintain the human species, avoid extinction.