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'''Philippine Psychology''' is the [[Philippines|Philippine]] branch of a more wider perspective of the [[Asian Psychology]]. Philippine Psychology is now being studied in some universities as part of their Psychology courses. It is also called Filipino Psychology. Philippine Psychology draws its ideas that, Filipinos are a unique people, socially, intellectually, historically, in perspectives, and in thought. It does not, however, apply traditional Psychological concepts, such as those of [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] and [[Carl Jung|Jung]], to the Philippine setting. But, it does sense and explain the different peculiarities of the various Philippine cultures, while centering on one major culture, that of the mainlandPhilippine Christiancultural Filipinossetting.

==Cultural Psychology==

Philippine Cultural Psychology concernes itself with the various cultural peculiarities, superstitious beliefs and aspects of the Filipinos (as as totality), such as certain rituals and beliefs, for example, the importance of [[fiestas]] and certain [[Philippine Mythology]] in the country.