I always tell my friends and patients about courses and even colleges that are available on the Internet. And the best: they are free!!! I don’t know why this still hasn’t appeared in federal government advertisements. All Federal Colleges in Brazil are offering online undergraduate courses for free. And more than that: students receive books for each subject and can ...

Hello friends! It is with great happiness that we start our free Online Psychology Course. In this text and video, we will talk about the definition of psychology, its history, areas of activity and the main theoretical approaches. So let’s start! Do you know what psychology means? What does a psychologist or psychologist do? We can start by defining the ...

Gestalt Psychology originated in Germany, between 1910 and 1912. The translation of the German word “Gestalt” is complex and the terms, in Portuguese, that are closest to its translation would be “form”, “configuration”. The three researchers who marked this theoretical current were Marx Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. These researchers were based on psychophysical studies – which related form ...

Behaviorism was inaugurated with Watson’s 1913 article entitled “Psychology: As Behaviorists View It”. Watson took behavior as the object of Psychology. The founder of Behaviorism gave consistency to Psychology by having an observable, measurable object of study. The experiments of this science could be reproduced in the laboratory, under different conditions and on different subjects. This perspective led to the ...

Emotional dependence happens when someone depends on another to be happy, to feel good, to feel loved, to make their own decisions. It can be mild and almost imperceptible suffering or even a mental disorder that requires treatment. The beginning of change happens when the person can value himself. As Osho says: “If you are capable of being happy when ...

Hello dear readers of the Psychology MSN.com Site! This is the home page of the Free Online Psychology Course. This is an Introduction Course. The purpose of this Free Course is to introduce you to the great field of study called Psychology. Whether you are new to the area or want to know even more about the subject, this Online ...

In everyday life, we often talk about believing and not believing in something. We can think of religious beliefs and sometimes we talk about limiting or negative beliefs. Within cognitive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the concept of beliefs is very important for understanding mental disorders. According to CBT, beliefs are understood as central to the cause and maintenance of ...

Hello friends! In 1901, Freud published another work that would become known worldwide: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. After publishing in the previous year (1900), The Interpretation of Dreams, the creator of psychoanalysis expands his theses on the unconscious to encompass everyday behavior. If until then he had proven the existence of the unconscious, desire and repression (or repression) in ...

Hello friends! I received, by email, a question from a dear reader of the site. She wrote to us: “I would like to clarify a doubt; a UFMG professor talked about a “post psychology” course that would guarantee the psychologist prescribes medicine, would guarantee him many of the functions of a psychiatrist. I couldn’t delve into the conversation, but I’m ...

Find out what to do to be a sexologist or sexologist, that is, a specialist in sex and sexuality with expertise in sex education, sex therapy and sexology. Hello friends! A dear reader of the site, Eliza, asked us what to do to be a sexologist or sexologist. In this text, I will try to answer this question. Well, only ...