Some lines of psychotherapy such as Moreno’s psychodrama, Jung’s analytical psychology and Berne’s transactional analysis use concepts and ideas that come from the theater. An interesting, lesser-known concept is Berne’s script of life. As in the theater, in a film, in a soap opera, for Berne each person decides at some point in their existence a script, that is, a ...

Hello friends! There are many definitions of success and many definitions of focus. For the purposes of our text, I define success as achieving a measurable goal and focus as the ability to focus on one thing, the most important thing at which we want to succeed. In this year that we are ending today, the most important book I ...

A very special person asked me a question (by email – @gmail.com) on the question of vocation. Nowadays, inspired by materialism, there is no longer any talk of vocation. Psychology professionals prefer to talk about Professional Guidance, rather than Vocational Guidance. But the term Vocational Guidance was used until a few decades ago. It brings with it the idea that ...

Discover the definition of character for Alfred Adler, the creator of Individual Psychology and the differences between optimism and pessimism. Hello friends! Continuing our Free Course on Adler’s Individual Psychology, today we will look at his conceptions of character, in the chapter entitled: “The Science of Character”. Specifically, we will talk about two types of character described by the author: ...

Hello friends! In the section of our website – Ask a Psychologist – I receive many questions daily. In these more than 3 years I have received hundreds of questions regarding the problem of premature ejaculation. Many of these men had already tried almost everything to solve the problem. Although they always take time to seek help, many of them ...

Hello friends! In these last few weeks, one of my texts started to appear in first place on google, a text that I never designed for this purpose, as it is not a specifically psychology text. But it started to appear because many people are participating in a national contest and the theme was exactly the theme of the title ...

Continuing our Free Storytelling Courselet’s talk now about the importance of understanding that each character has a goal, has a purpose, has a mission, just like you and I, just like all of us. If we are going to tell a story, be it fictional or real, we have to immediately capture what the character wants, what is his target, ...

Nowadays we live in a world where time has become scarce. Almost everyone, even children, complains that they are out of time. But, in fact, it is not nature’s time that has changed. We have, just like our great grandparents, the same 24 hours a day, the same 365 days a year, the same 4 seasons. We were the ones ...

Key questions to understand the importance of Professional Guidance. Hello friends! It is with great pleasure that I publish an interview given to the Abril Student Guide. As you certainly know, the Student Guide is a reference publication (in magazine and website) about colleges, courses and graduate programs. See the interview given by me, psychologist Felipe de Souza, below: 1) ...

In the book Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Aaron Beck – the creator of cognitive psychology – and collaborators describe how cognitive psychologists understand and treat patients diagnosed with personality disorders. What is a Personality Disorder? Roughly speaking, it is understood that a patient with a personality disorder differs from a patient with symptoms of a disorder with the same ...