To different disciplines

Application of Psychology
to Different Disciplines
Literature and art are the other fields of knowledge which are also related to
psychology. In recent years, extensive investigations have been made in to the
role of psychological factors in the production of literary pieces and works of
art. Freud, Jung and several outstanding psychologists have tried to analyse the
role of psychological factors like ego, motivation and personality in literary and
artistic conditions.
Architecture is yet another field which has begun to take in to account
psychological factors in designing buildings, town planning etc. One may
therefore, say that the science of psychology as a very intimate relationship with
almost every other discipline. This is naturally so because psychology is the
basic science which is directly concerned with the study of human behaviour
and evolving of techniques and strategies to improve human behaviour. Most
other disciplines are also concerned with human behaviour or products of human
behaviour directly or indirectly. Hence, this intimate connection of psychology
with other fields of knowledge, is only natural.
You may be wondering that if psychology is so intimately related to other branches
of knowledge and it has borrowed extensively from developments in other
sciences, can we regard psychology as an independent discipline? The answer to
this is strongly in the affirmative. While psychology might have leaned very
heavily on discoveries and developments in other fields, it has an identity of its
own. While other disciplines may be concerned with different aspects of
behaviour, psychology alone is concerned with behaviour in totality. Further, if
it has borrowed from other subjects, it has also contributed as much or more, to
the growth and development of other subjects. In fact, this trend is steadily on
the increase.
This is particularly so when it comes to the question of application of scientific
knowledge to action programs. You can now appreciate the extensive and wide
scope of psychology in a better light. It is no more a subject limited to
philosophical speculations. It is now considered as a science and to be more
exact, a psycho-socio-biological science. While it is related to other branches of
knowledge, at the same time it is independent; perhaps, much more extensive in
its scope and far more deeper in its implications. (Parameswaran and Beena,
2002).
We will now discuss the interrelationship of psychology to other fields like
engineering, cognitive science, environmental sciences, law, and criminology.