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Overview
A challenging but fascinating topic on the way to achieving self-knowledge is the unconscious. For well over a century, psychologists, philosophers, and many others have posited a level of mentality that is not immediately open to introspection; some would even say that certain unconscious elements cannot be known through introspection.
Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge - The Unconscious is offered by Coursera in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and also with Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
What you will learn
- Gain an appreciation of the relation of methods of learning about oneself that do not depend on introspection.
- Become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience into the emotions and the unconscious.
- Understand the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception.
- Be able to identify and analyse unconscious mechanisms motivating own and other people's actions.
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Courses include:
- The Freudian Unconscious
- Freud's legacy
- The Adaptive Unconscious
- Rationality and Emotions
- Final assessment
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Psychology Health Sciences View 177 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in United StatesExplore more key information
Visit university websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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General requirements
- Intermediate Level
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