Have you ever stopped to think that everything starts with a thought? All our joys begin in our thoughts about life, about facts, about ourselves and about others. This also happens with negative things: our sadness begins in our thoughts, thoughts that WE OURSELVES CREATE and for which WE ARE RESPONSIBLE. Everything we think has a strong impact on us. ...

Aristotle is faced with a great philosophical problem left by Heraclitus and Parmenides, that is, the problem of the movement (change) of being, of things, of the being: the being moves, changes or remains immobile, always identical to itself ? According to Heráclito, change happens constantly in things, because everything flows. Parmenides, on the other hand, defends monism and the ...

Saying you’re in love and saying you’re in love are two different things. In passion, it is natural for a natural process to occur that in psychology we call projection🇧🇷 Projection would be what is part of me, but I project onto the other. That is, when we fall in love we are actually in love by our aspects designed ...

In psychology, impulsivity is an impulse or tendency to act, in which behavior shows little or no prior thought or reflection. Impulsivity, therefore, often leads to risky behavior or behavior that the subject later regrets. From a cognitive point of view, it is considered a “hot cognition”, that is, a cognition that brings together some kind of emotion or emotional ...

We can increase our productive capacity by understanding our biological rhythm. Hello friends! There are many attempts to explain the function of sleep. Curious as children, we might wonder why we sleep? Why don’t we stay awake 24 hours a day? The most plausible explanation is that we sleep for our body to recover, in a cycle that goes from ...

Hello friends! Today we are going to talk about the cognitive model in Cognitive Therapy, a model that is fundamental for understanding this approach to psychology. Despite its enormous theoretical and practical depth, the cognitive model is simple to understand. In short, we can say that we all have interpretations about the world and events and, therefore, it is not ...

Learn more about what behavioral psychology is and the two types of behaviorism: radical and methodological. In the first chapter of the book edited by Vicente Caballo, Manual of Therapy Techniques and Behavior Modificationchapter entitled “Origins, Recent History, Current Issues and Future States of Behavior Therapy: A Conceptual Review”, Cyril M. Franks, we find some very important definitions about behavioral ...

In order to talk about Psychology as a science, it is necessary to go through positivism, since it was through it and its scientific precepts that Psychology can be taken as a science. The French philosopher Auguste Comte founded positivism, scrutinized the idea of ​​science and defined the criteria for knowledge to be taken as scientific, during Modernity. All knowledge ...

In this text, I write about personality in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis, which emerged from the work of Sigmund Freud, is quite complex and difficult to explain in a few words. But I will try, as much as possible, to explain the different types of people that we find out there through the concept of structure and defense mechanisms. We could define ...

In the office and in the doubts I receive through Ask the Psychologist, I always receive questions about ending romantic relationships. This is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions, along with questions about mental illness, the lack of meaning in life and other questions about relationship difficulties – not just love. Love is a trick question, as they ...