Psychology is the most (challenging and) fascinating subject I could study. This belief stems from my natural desire to understand what makes people tick. How do we make sense of relations between brain, mind and behaviour? I am particularly curious in the origins of consciousness, how it is mediated, sparked by reading Nicholas Humphrey’s ‘The Mind Made Flesh’. I consider Psychology to be found everywhere from sitting at a bus stop people watching, to observing upset patients at a GP placement. I realise it is becoming increasingly relevant to society, as mental health problems escalate and public media interest grows. This field has long been a passion of mine that was only reinforced by studying Medicine for two years. For me it means a scientific discipline that crosses many subjects, which excites me. I think that there are links with the subconscious existence of being human, and a collective experience of people universally through spirituality, Philosophy and the arts. These bring access to personal healing at times of human distress.
The Psychological aspects of my Medical course always most interested me, reflected in higher module marks. From learning about health beliefs, social cognition and attribution theory, to understanding how motivated, risky behaviours like drug taking manifest. However Medicine did not allow me the chance to fully explore these topics and many more, as I strongly desire to. Observations from dance training led me to research the origins of eating disorders for a weeklong module project that I greatly enjoyed. Movement I do in ballet has also made me think and be very aware of multisensory perception firsthand. This raised questions I would love to understand so have arranged time at proprioception research in an Experimental Research lab. Work experience for two weeks in Neuropharmacology, University of Oxford with Baroness Susan Greenfield gave me an insight into how varied and exciting science research can be. It...