I saw a psychiatrist. He told me my issues weren't psychological but philosophical Whats the exact difference?

Question

pacifist warmonger, I appreciate your answer and I understand what you're saying and I was like that.But I think my psychological problems affected my Philosophical out look. What I want to know is where does psychology end and philosophy begin. I know you pretty much answered that but I just still need it spelled out for me. THX

Answer 1

As far as I know (I'm no expert), he is saying that its not a matter of you not being able to handle the world (psychological) or the problems it throws at you.

Its your outlook on life that is the problem.  You are fully in control of how you see the situation, and therefore you are fully capable of fixing it by simply changing your point-of-view.

If it were psychological, you would be having thoughts that don't fit within the norm and are completely deluding your mind.  But philosophical situations are based more on how you are choosing to see the world.

If you see the world as out to get you because it hates you, that is psychological.  If you see the world as just an evil place you want nothing to do with, that is philosophical.  You can choose to see the bad, or you can choose to see the good.  But either way, you know that the world isn't out to get you.  It just does bad things sometimes; not all or even most of it intentional.

Answer 2

Psychology is part philosophy, not the other way around.

Epistemology is a large portion of psychology; how it affects the things going on in your life and what things you value (metaphysics) wind up being the "picture" of your psychology. To change your psychology, you change your metaphysics or your epistemology, or both.

Look for an Epistemic Psychologist.