Hello friends! In this text, I would like to share what I am learning from the book Schema Therapy by Jeffrey E. Young🇧🇷 Despite having many similarities with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy (Young) criticizes these previous approaches, proposing a new form of treatment, especially for the so-called Personality Disorders. According to the DSM-5, “a Personality Disorder is a persistent pattern ...

I’m always wary of books that try to oversimplify complex subjects. But, after all, we have to start from somewhere. This text seeks to show the main concepts of psychoanalysis. In a way, it does what I suspect. However, I believe that the proposal is valid and I respond to a request from a dear reader of our site. Basically, ...

Psychology approaches several areas of knowledge. It approaches medicine and biology in the research of psychophysiology, neurosciences, neuropsychology. It is close to pedagogy in school and educational psychology and psychopedagogy; of administration and economics in organizational psychology, human resources and, among other approaches, we find the relationship between psychology and law. A dear reader of our site, who is studying ...

We talk about being sure as a derivation of being right: – “Are you sure that the cinema starts at 20:00?”– “Yes, I am sure it does”. Being sure, being right, being safe are definitions we give about events, happenings. We can be certain about many things, while other things are naturally uncertain. Foucault once said – if I’m not ...

Hello friends! A great businessman, a friend of mine, told me about an unusual situation. In his company, dozens of young people (between 18 and 25 years old) are working for fixed periods of time, with the sole intention of working a little, collecting unemployment benefits, working a little more and receiving insurance again, and so on. This successful businessman, ...

Complaining is behavior maintained by consequences. Understand. Some time ago, I published here on the site the challenge of going 21 days without complaining. The objective would not be so much to create a behavior governed by rules, but rather to provoke self-knowledge, the perception of the moments when there is a probability to complain, as well as the causes ...

So it’s Christmas – What did you do? Well, the end of the year is approaching and this is a time for reflections on the past year! The subtitle of this text “So it’s Christmas – What did you do?” is a translation of the famous song by John Lennon So this is Christmas (War is over). Although it is ...

Doctor of Psychology John M. Gottman, for more than two decades, studied the theme of romantic relationships in scientific experiments at the University of Washington. In his research, for example, he placed a couple – who agreed with the research terms – in a simulated apartment and studied the interactions between them. Even in newlyweds, in his experience, he could ...

Hello friends! With the growth of our website and the increase in the number of views of texts and comments, I see that many people – from all over Brazil – have the dream of studying psychology at university. As Brazil is a continental country, thousands of cities do not offer psychology colleges. For certain regions, it is not even ...

One of the most fundamental concepts in Cognitive Psychology is the concept of belief. According to Beck et al. “Beliefs are relatively rigid, enduring cognitive structures that are not easily modified by experience. Cognitive psychology argues that beliefs have a profound impact on feelings and behavior” (Beck et al. P. 292). Regarding substance use disorders – according to the nomenclature ...