End of the year, time when everyone rethinks their plans for the coming year. New dreams, new goals to be achieved, new challenges. It is perhaps the moment of greatest collective reflection, almost everyone stopping to think about what they are doing in their lives. There are several objectives, but practically all of them are aimed at the same end: ...

William James (1842 – 1910) is considered by many to be the father of American psychology. Psychologist and philosopher has important works published in both areas. In psychology, we can highlight the book published in 1872 called Principles of Psychology🇧🇷 Another world-renowned work by William James is Varieties of Religious Experiencepublished in 1902. Read below an excerpt from a book ...

Discover the 4 processes that define what Mindfulness is for ACT There are many definitions of what Mindfulness is. One of the clearest, in my opinion, is ACT – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This definition uses 4 components of psychological flexibility: flexible attention to the moment, acceptance, cognitive defusion and the self as context (observer self). In this text, I ...

Hello friends! Continuing our Free Psychology of Persuasion Course, today we will talk about how affection is used as a persuasion tool. I think it is not difficult to identify how the process takes place, the difficult thing is to escape and not be persuaded. First, it is important to define what affection is. In the dictionary, we find the ...

Hello friends! A trick question that we can hear in a job interview is “What do you expect for the next few years?” or even “Where will you be in three, five years from now?” It’s a kind of joke for interviewers, whether they are psychologists, administrators or human resources technicians, because the future is always unknown, it’s a world ...

Albert Ellis was considered by the American Psychological Association as the second most influential psychotherapist in history, second only to Carl Rogers. He is the creator of Rational Emotive Therapy, which, since the 1950s, has inaugurated a new form of treatment that we now call Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is estimated that Ellis was the person who treated the most ...

Self-mutilation or cutting, for most people, is something difficult to understand. Why would anyone hurt themselves? One of the first times I encountered a self-injured child, I observed a boy banging his head against the concrete floor. His caretakers immediately intervened and made him stop but with just one beat he had opened a big cut and was bleeding profusely. ...

Hello friends! Continuing our series of texts on Professional Guidance, today we are going to talk about postgraduate studies. During graduation or after graduation, a common question for professionals and students from all areas is which postgraduate course is best to do. Given my experience – I have a master’s degree, I’m doing a doctorate and I’ve already attended a ...

Hello friends! A while ago I wrote this text – And when is it better to give up? – and today I would like to talk to you about a feeling that we often encounter in the psychology office. The feeling that everything is going wrong. And, perhaps, worse: that there is no hope, that it is better not to ...

Precious tips on how to start studying when the text or book seems difficult or impossible to understand. Hello friends! A dear reader of our website asked me to give tips on how to study and understand more complex texts, when we are starting a graduation, in the first periods. Let me explain: when we leave High School and enter ...