Psychology, a Greek word; The mental function underlying the behaviors and behaviors is science, which ignores cognitive and emotional processes.
It can be said that psychology emerged with people. The person who began to think, who questioned him, who testified the relationship with others, who tried to improve his perception of the environment, who was intelligent, and who learned to use the language, was in the early ages unaware of his psychology.
However, in the first and medieval times when psychology was devoid of scientific structure, psychological disturbances were connected to supernatural powers and evil spirits.
Psychology first gained meaning in the functioning of philosophy, with the questions asked by philosophers in the world. Later, by gaining independence from philosophy, it is now recognized as a modern identity among the social sciences, with the theoretical and experimental approaches that are valid today.
Socrates, those who fell in the way to the Delphi Temple in greece, "Know yourself" on the Sunrise of Apollo! he thought they could develop a solution to their problems through the knowledge. The place of self-knowledge in modern psychology is also indisputable.
Aristotle left a trail in social psychology, saying that some people should be slaves in order to be free.
Descartes says, "I am thinking so, I am." the form of defining the passion, the sexuality he discovered in childhood years later found its place in the teachings of Freud.
The psychology that assumes the rich inheritance of philosophy with these and other examples, In the end, it is an independent social consciousness transformation. Over time, psychology laboratories, institutes, research centers have been established, and the theories and the future of psychology have begun to be discussed from the theoretical and experimental viewpoints in universities.
When we look at history psychologically in the geography where we live, it has been observed that the Central Asian Turks turned to the treatment of mental disorders through shamanism before Islam.
During the periods when patients with psychological distress in Europe were exposed to heavy hardships, believing that demons entered their souls, the Ottoman Empire was undergoing treatment in the hospital setting. In 1488 Sultan II Bayezit's mausoleum in Edirne was treated with music in the hospital section of the soul and nervous diseases. According to the speed of the heartbeats, the melodies were chosen to reduce their distress.
While questioning the development of psychology in a country that is trying to consolidate its position as a universal science, it is necessary to pay attention to the social values that the existing approaches in the world can adapt to the culture of the country and that they are under the influence of the individual.
It is necessary to ignore the social and cultural differences in the diagnosis and treatment of the disorders, in the determination of the theories, and in the effective functioning of the experimental approach, since the differentiated items such as relationships, self-worth and the way of showing emotions in traditional and modern societies directly affect the psychological development of the individual.
