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Just to clarify, "psychology" is the study of BEHAVOUR. So everything is related to seduction.
Ehm, no it's not. The study of behaviour is called Behavioural Science which is a subcategory within psychology. Psychology is very open and a lot falls under it. The actual subject itself covers a lot of topics and things you generally wouldn't think would be covered such as neuroimaging or neuropsychology. There's a lot of different speciliasations you can branch out to. Behaviouralism, psychotherapy(Freudian psychology), neuroscience, clinical therapy, forensic psychology/science, cognitive, developmental... Lots. Needless to say psychology isn't simply "the study of behaviour." Behaviourism is but one school within it.
http://psychology.about.com/od/psycholo ... ychfaq.htm
And "mysticism"... No, just no. Palm reading has zero to do with psychology. The understanding of what goes on in the person's mind who is having their palm read would have to do with psychology but simple palm reading has nada to do with psychology nor does anything to do with magic. Psychology is the scientific understanding of the human mind not mysticism.
I think what you meant was "pseudo-science" as has been a common argument over the "science" of psychology from the days of Freud... and with good reason given Freud had very little scientific credit towards his theories and simply theorised about pretty much everything. All of his studies are either carried out by others without his direct supervision or were complete failures and his patients thoroughly disagreed with his assessments(For instance Anna O and the "Talking Cure"). Freud did a many great thing for the field of psychology but he also did a lot of damage for it's reputation, something which -- in the scientific world -- has taken a long time to shake resulting in psychology becoming a lot more technical and statistical than you would think.