Well... Thank you, at age 12 I decided I wanted to learn what was inside the "black box" we call brain, so all my life has revolved around getting to learn more about what goes on in our minds. When I wasn't studying I was playing videogames or reading books =P
My areas of interest... well, pretty much everything. But I guess it would be find the answer to the question.
"Why?" is the most common question. For better or worst, the answer almost always leads me to another question, "How?".
I am not that stuck up on psychoanalysis though, I prefer an approach more akin to Humanism. I had mostly worked in tandem with a person a respect a lot, a mentor of sorts, he's a Neuroscientist. We worked with people with neurological impediments, but after my time with him I have worked with people inside the autism spectrum, even though I don't know that much about their condition. I mostly did that for the experience.
My real goal would be to become a psychotherapist, but I haven't found a way to establish a practice yet. I like field work more than lab work, but I enjoy research and experimentation. It's just that I find that working in a lab can be a very de-humanizing endeavor.
I worked recently in a care center for people with low income, but ended up "promoted"(I guess...) to give the medical staff various psychological treatments, mostly tools for managing stress and couping mechanisms.
I am not that smart, really... but teachers always told me I am a very emphatic person, perhaps that's why I happen to be good at what I do.
If anything, my area of interesting is something called "Truth". You would be surprised how much we humans complicate our lives, far more than we need to. I understand some people need the drama or the spice, but most people really go out of their way to create phantom enemies in their minds and having demons to vanquish. I think it's because we see that kind of stuff on TV, Movies, Games and all sorts of media, and we want that kind of pizazz in our lives. I liked how in the movie "The Matrix", Agent Smith told Morpheus that the first Matrix was a paradise, but everyone rejected it, so instead, they tried to create a troublesome world to mimic our own lives, and people responded incredibly well to that. I understand that the bittersweetness in life must exist, for we can only truly appreciate happyness because we now of sadness, but really... some people seem to think they need to pay for every waking second of happiness with tragedy and despair.
I will always try to become a successful psychotherapist, but now I think a more realistic option is to teach, after all, I have always been better with words than with pencils. I traveled a lot, moving from one place to another in order to broaden my idea of the mind. That is, until I realized there were places on the internet that weren't all about memes and fads. Since then I have looked for places on the internet that offer me insights on the collective mind this virtual sub-culture is, and I have found some very rewarding ideas, as well as a lot of nonsensical crap.
I have learned a lot from your own entries here on the Compendium Lord J Esq, I thank you for providing some interesting and very delicious food for thought. There have been some topics I would like to participate, only to find out you have pretty much said it all. I feel akin to your idea of cementing our opinions with facts, not just demonstrating our echolalia to the rest of the world by repeating something we heard some other people say, or worst, something we watched on some crappy talk show(I am looking at YOU, "Dr." Phil)
I am a better speaker than I am a writer, because I can't read the other person body language, I have trouble realizing when I have said enough... and always end up going into some random tangent(like I did just now) so I am finishing this post here. Sorry if my answer was not what you were looking for.