I was reading one of the (many) Prince Harry threads and a poster wrote something that sounded, to me, quite insightful and psychologically plausible. It made me wonder whether there is scope for something within psychology/counselling around understanding other people better.
My idea is this: if you were having a hard time dealing with other people in your life, eg some kind of family conflict, there could be some kind of service where you go along, as if for therapy, and talk to someone about what the other person is doing/saying with a view to understanding that person's feelings and motivations better.
The psychologist would use their professional knowledge and insight to give you possible explanations of what might be going on in that person's head and ways of reconciling yourself or of challenging the behaviour, as appropriate.
Sort of a cross between counselling, mediation and FBI profiling, like outsourcing wisdom.
I can imagine this being incredibly useful in dealing with conflict if you could have someone expert to suggest what might be going on for the other person.
I think I would be really happy to be able to access that - it could be a phone line. Maybe called 'WTF is going on here?' or 'Why do they do that?'.
Any psychologists who want to steal and monetise my excellent concept, please go right ahead. I think I may be a genius.