Humanitarian (psychological) education for a person of a technical mindset?

Question

IT education

Friends.
I'm interested in such a moment - are there technical specialists among the community who, as a second higher (/ master's) degree, chose or considered receiving a psychological education?
Brief disclaimer. I have the first higher education in the specialty mathematician-programmer. Practicing iOS developer. From time to time, thoughts about continuing education in a magistracy visit, but a magistracy in a technical specialty is seen as ineffective, because. Practice has shown that in our business self-education drives and beeps. Therefore, I tend to further training "in breadth", and not "in depth". In the meantime, I go to various lectures on near-psychological topics (mainly on psychophysiology) and I understand that there is interest in this direction. Well, in general, psychology, as, in fact, the only science dealing with issues of self-knowledge is of interest.
I would like to hear the arguments for and against the benefits of the subject. If there are people who have gone through a similar path, I will be grateful if you share your experience - what did psychological education give you personally? There is a certain gap between the technical mindset, accustomed to studying concrete things, and the humanitarian, studying more abstract entities. Was this transition easy? What can formal psychological education give that self-education cannot give in this area?

Answer 1

There is no humanitarian education, and in general I understand little in this area and cannot judge, but let me pay attention to one point. It seems that psychophysiology is closer to neurophysiology than to humanitarian scholasticism. Maybe you are interested in just the sciences that study the brain? Reflexes, coordination of movements, mechanisms of sense organs, memory, cognitive abilities, as the crown of everything - consciousness - all this is also self-knowledge.
- These are the natural sciences, in which there is a principle "experiment is the criterion of truth."
- Research and models in this area are inconceivable without computers. You will have a synergistic effect: by modeling biological neural processes, you will also deepen your knowledge in the technical field.
- Now in this area there is a certain boom.
- With the advent and development of inexpensive brain-computer interfaces, entry-level studies can be carried out even at home, without access to large encephalographs.

Answer 2

And why do you need a second higher education to understand the topic? Or do you think the level of teaching in the humanities is better than in the exact ones? Start with the basics, or rather with the works of the founders of science Jung , Fromm , Nietzsche , Litvak M.E. reworked their works well from their contemporaries . Get a general idea of ​​​​science itself, and not philosophy and history slightly seasoned with psychology, as in academic education, and then decide. The books of all of the above were released in audio format, they are perfectly listened to on the road.

Answer 3

There is some contradiction in your question.
Well, it is quite possible to engage in the humanities on your own. It is not clear why you need a master's degree? Why are the lectures that you "walk around" not enough for you?
I am also the type of person who, having an engineering profession, is interested in the same psychology, and writing, and design. But I do not go to get a diploma in these areas, because a diploma, as a rule, is needed for work. And for the soul, you can study what you need yourself. Now there is everything for this: from books to online courses.
Considering your elective interests and the fact that you have a technical education, you may like the following course of lectures - "The Logic of Thinking" (about how our brain works):
www.aboutbrain.ru/%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0 %B3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D...
Well, I think you've seen this:
https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=%D0%BF%D1%8...