• Question: Did anything in your childhood inspire you to go into psychology as a career?

    Asked by anon-304376 on 18 Nov 2021.
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      Natalie Butcher answered on 18 Nov 2021:

      Not really from my childhood. My sister (5 years older than me) studied Alevel psychology and I remember thinking it sounded really interesting when she told me stuff about what she was learning so I then studied it at college too and that’s what led me to do a degree in psychology because I found it was my favourite subject to study at college and I was also pretty good at it 😊

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      Alex Baxendale answered on 18 Nov 2021:

      Growing up my mum would always mention she did a night school class in Psychology which I thought was interesting, but I also grew up around people with mental illnesses. My stepdad who I grew up around had Schizophrenia, and a few of my friends had a variety of disorders so I was always familiar with some bits of psychology. I was interested in finding out what was going on inside all of these people, and I wanted to do something to help

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      Emily McDougal answered on 22 Nov 2021:

      No, not that I can think of! I always wanted to be a writer when I was growing up and I wasn’t directly introduced to psychology until I studied it at A-Level. I was fascinated by it, and this is what led me to study it at university. In some ways I did end up becoming a writer – I write scientific papers! – although I don’t think it is the type of writer I ever expected, I do really enjoy it.

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      James Bartlett answered on 24 Nov 2021:

      From what I am aware, there was nothing in my childhood that influenced my career as a psychologist. I was always interested in science though. I used to collect science books and the horrible science magazine series, so that was always an interest for me.

      It wasn’t until I was around 15/16 looking at A-levels that I was interested in psychology. I enjoyed it as an A-level but genuinely the thing that interested me in psychology for my degree was the TV series criminal minds. I found the idea of forensic psychology fascinating.

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