Hello friends! This post is more of a joke, but at the same time, it warns about the symptoms of OCD. OCD for those who don’t know is the acronym for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, also called obsessive neurosis in psychoanalysis. One of the characteristic symptoms of OCD is the obsession with orders and patterns. When patterns are broken, there is great ...

“What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows” (Ralph Marston) Hello friends! Changing a behavior or a group of behaviors is not always easy. Some techniques work for one change, but they don’t always work for another type. An extremely simple and effective technique for many types of change is disseminated and worked on in self-help groups such ...

Reverse psychology – as we call it here in Brazil – or reverse psychology is the behavioral result of a dialogue or communication in which a person does the opposite of what is suggested. Hello friends! Reverse psychology or inverse psychology is well known in some media, such as advertising, although it is little known in psychology faculties, not least ...

Hello friends! A while ago, I was asked by a dear reader to write about Genograms. For those who don’t know, genograms are symbolic representations of the relationships between members of a family. They are different from the famous family trees because they point out not only the degrees of kinship but also patterns of behavior, attitudes and physical and ...

During the period in which I worked with Human Resources, the area of ​​Psychology that deals with companies, I did more than 1,000 interviews and various group dynamics. With the experience I have, I will give you tips on how to behave in a job interview: See also – How to write a perfect CV and the Complete List of ...

Hello friends! We are now starting a new Free Course here on the site about Positive Psychology! The Course will have special emphasis on the 24 Character Strengths listed below which serve as the blueprint for Sanity. In other words, instead of creating a Manual of Mental Illnesses, as is the DSM-IV or, in part, the ICD-10, positive psychologists want ...

Hello friends! The text below is not mine. I found it in Spanish, on a Dominican page, and I translated it with the intention of starting a discussion on how to evaluate the work of a psychology professional. Both on the website and on Facebook, Spanish-speaking psychologists criticized the text – for several reasons. Well, we can talk about them ...

Discover some practical tips from cognitive psychology to think and talk less. And live longer. Hello friends! Some time ago I published the following text – Verbal behavior: people who talk too much – and a question arose: “How to talk less?” In principle, the idea of ​​talking less may be strange or pointless, but since talking and thinking are ...

There are three basic types of motivation that explain why we do what we do, when we do it. Hello friends! One of the most fundamental questions in psychology is: why do people do what they do? Or, more specifically: Why do people do what they do and when they do it? Evidently, we can include ourselves in the equation: ...

Alexithymia is the inability or inability to identify and describe emotions. Do you know anyone like that? Hello friends! Recently, while reading an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) book, I came across a term I was unfamiliar with. That term was: alexithymia. So I did some research and found some very interesting information about this word that I wanted to ...