Hello friends! When I published the text “Don’t take yourself so seriously”, I mentioned vipassana meditation and received several emails asking for more details about what it is and how to do it. In this text, therefore, I will explain better to you what it is about. The word Vipassanā or vipaśyanā means “insight”, seeing things as they really are. ...

Understand once and for all that there is no set time to start studying. So, it’s never too late to start, it’s never too late to learn. Once you’ve learned it, if it’s for a real reason, you’ll have learned it forever. Hello friends! If you are reading these words, it means you can read. If you can read, it ...

Hello friends! In Mindfulness Psychology, there is a very simple type of activity to transform – to improve – our interpersonal relationships. It is valid and useful not only for love relationships but for any and all types of closer relationships. This activity, which we can also call training, is made up of 4 parts. Each part is usually worked ...

Hello friends! I would like to start today’s text by thanking everyone for their love. I have received several very nice emails – and comments – recognizing our effort to spread the word about psychology, in texts ranging from the most abstract theories to articles that are immediately practical. I want to start by thanking you because we closed the ...

Learn more about psychoanalysis and the other 5 types of psychotherapy listed by the American Psychological Association Hello friends! The question about the difference between therapy with a psychologist and a psychoanalyst appears a lot here on the site, as well as the doubt about what psychology is and what psychoanalysis is. In this text, I will try to answer ...

“In Freud’s great triumvirate, the ego, superego and id represent sets of contingencies that are almost inevitable when a person lives in a group” (Skinner, p. 131) Hello friends! During psychology college, it is common to see heated discussions about the various theories that seek to explain people’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors. After a few periods in college, each student will ...

The Clinical Interview The clinical interview always has therapeutic intervention as its final objective. The client or patient will exhibit a behavior that you want to get rid of. Thus, a detailed analysis of his behavioral history should always be carried out under the focus of an intervention aimed at his well-being. Thus, the interview aims to establish a special ...

Full Name: Felipe Luis Melo de Souza. Psychologist – Enrolled in the Federal Council of Psychology since 2006 – CRP 04/25443 See on this page my Personal Biography, my Curriculum and my Academic experience, as well as testimonials about myself Personal Biography I was born in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais, called São Lourenço. Small city ...

Hello friends! I have frequently received the following question: “I do social work (or have already graduated) and would like to do a graduate degree in psychology. Which do you recommend?” In this text, I will give my personal opinion about it. I think that this doubt is also related to other graduations, that is, students from other faculties may ...

Hello friends! Marshall Rosemberg developed Non-Violent Communication, or Compassionate Communication, so that all of us could reconnect with principles that have always been within us, but that for a series of reasons throughout life are lost. Much research in psychology in recent decades shows that very young children (between 1 and 2 years old) tend to want to help, that ...