Psychology is such a diverse subject that it's often difficult to know where to start.

For myself, I began my informal studies by reading Sigmund Freud to better understand the construct of ego and the "self" from a psychoanalytic perspective. Once I had the basics of how we, as people, are formed within our own experiences and perception of the world I continued on the path to Anna Freud and her works with child psychoanalysis; focusing on ego and the mechanisms of defense. From Anna, I moved to her mentor, Melanie Klein and studied her works in Object Relations Theory.

I've read many others along the way; but these three were where I had formed the basis of knowledge from which I would build and branch out into other areas of human psychology. At one point it seemed as though that the more I had sought I answers the more questions I was left with, so I kept searching through journals and studies in an effort to better understand the development of various conditions and disorders... I loved learning about this stuff!
The complexity of the mind and the "why" we do the things we do as individuals has always fascinated me.

I'm now in college studying Criminal Psychology and Behaviour as a kind of pre-degree preparation for university.