challenges in psychology!

In psychology always are challenges, in all the areas and approaches. The most important challenges in the discipline are doing research about discover the cure for the different psychopathologies, such as the schizophrenia, personality disorders or depression. Also it is necessary doing more research about the different pathologies because it is important do more discoveries about the mental illness, because it is necessary improve the quality of life of the persons who have a mental disorder.

For that psychology needs more technology in the research area and more studies about the that topic, such as the studies in course of the behavioral psychology about a test for discover the depression in children, this investigation it is very important because give to the psychologist the opportunity of detect the depression earlier and use the appropriate treatment for the child.

I think that an important challenge in psychology is develop more technology, such as a very specific scanner of the brain, for study the neurons in detail and how it connects. Also it is important develop a method for study the interaction of the neurons with other neurons and how they form circuits and systems, and how that systems produce the emotions and behavior in the humans. Because the knowledge about that is very little and it is necessary for the discipline and for a better life of humanity.

This technology gives to the psychology the possibility of cure some personality disorders, schizophrenia or depression, because in the neurons connections are all the information about the person and her/his behavior. The social matter can be help to persons with psychopathologies or intellectual deficits, regenerate more neurons(neurogenesis) or create new connections between the neurons, and with that change her/his personality and in some cases cure the mental illness, in that way psychology research can improve the quality of life of the patients.

The education in psychology is very important because permit to the discipline transfer the knowledge and permit to the new generations improve the old investigations, and also it is important improve the education in the universities about the psychology because it is a challenge in the discipline produce better professionals for doing better research and therapies.

My free time!!

The activities I enjoy the most when I have some free time are going out with my friends, watching TV and using my notebook. I really enjoy doing that, because doing those things relaxes me.

The activity I enjoy the most is going out with my friends in La Serena, we go to the center of the city or go to the mall. I go out with my friends when I can travel to La Serena, usually when I don’t have any tests or a class works. on some holidays I travel to La Serena and go out with my friends since the morning, we have lunch in the mall and stay there all afternoon, only talking and laughing. Sometimes I go to my friend’s house, well me and the rest of my friends. And we buy some food and drinks and stay there talking all night long.

Going out with my friends isn’t a frequent activity for me because I can’t travel to La Serena all the time. So here in Santiago the activity I enjoy the most is watching TV in my apartment, sometimes with my mother and sometimes alone. I can watch TV when I have some free time for me, without any tests or something like that. I had a lot of time to watch TV at the beginning of the term, because we did nothing in the university. I like watching some series like Buffy or charmed, also I like seeing movies and documentaries on Discovery Channel.

And the third one is the activity I do the most, but I don’t like much, in comparison with watching TV or going out with my friends. I use my notebook all day because I have to do a lot of class works; I use my computer to listen to music, watch some videos in youtube or read histories in some forums. Obviously I do that alone, usually when I study or do some class work. When I get bored I use my computer to entertain me. To the end of the term when I have more things to do for the university is when I waste much more time in the computer, because it is bored study all day.

IMPROVING MY FACULTY FACILITIES

I like my faculty, the faculty installations and recourses, for example here in FACSO we have two computer classrooms, one cafeteria, two places for photocopies and very cheap, we have a library and a elevator. However we need more facilities and we need to improve a lot of things. The first thing that the faculty need to improve is the library because the students need more books and magazines about psychology, sociology, anthropology and education. It is necessary a bigger cafeteria because, in FACSO are a lot of students and a lot of student come here to eat, so usually the cafeteria is full. And finally we need a neuroscience laboratory because in psychology it is necessary for the investigations in brain and behaviour.

The first steps to dealing with this situation is doing the different written projects and send them to the attendant of every situation, such as the attendant of laboratories in the university.

If the project is accepted, it is necessary a person how manage the money and use them for the right things. And the last steps are doing the new installations and buy more books. Only if the project is accepted the situation is resolve.

Exist a lot of benefits if the projects are accepted such as new books with updated information. With the neuroscience laboratory we’ll have access to the new technologies in neuroscience and do research in that, and with a bigger cafeteria we’ll have more space for eat.

I recommend to the faculty worry more for the research and implement more laboratories.

Music in my life!!

Evanescence - Call me when you're sober

I love music, but not all kind of music. I like the symphonic and gothic metal, groups like Nightwish, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Epica and more. I like the gothic rock too, it is different to the gothic metal because is more light and the letters are different. In this category there are groups such as Evanescence (my favourite group) and the Rasmus. Finally, I like one more style of music, well it is not a style is only a group of pop/rock. I like this group so much. It is a group called t.A.T.u.

The music is very important for me because it always relaxes me. The music calms me dawn when I’m angry or sad; it is quite a therapy for me. I like reading the lyrics of the song too, it is very interesting for me to know and understand what the musicians say. Especially with Evanescence because the lead singer Amy Lee wrote all the songs and in the lyrics are her feelings and thoughts, they are very beautiful lyrics.

How many hours per day? I really don’t know exactly, but I think that they are a lot when I have time, and not so much when I have other things to do. I try to listen to music all day, when I read, study or when I do nothing.

I think that the music is good for health because in some therapies the people use some music for relaxation. I use for that reason too. Also the classical music, for example, Beethoven or Mozart is used for pregnant women to estimulate their babies before the birth.

Links:

Evanescence- BRING ME TO LIFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ORuIBjjBU&feature=channel

Within temptation - ANGELS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9qfVQ4Z04

Epica - THE PHANTOM AGONY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCyFLH5fFhc

t.A.T.u. - All ABOUT US

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ZFyzhfgbI

Nightwish - NEMO (exelent video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4LyKd-Hws

See a psychiatrist? Are you mad?

This article is about an anti psychiatric called Richard Bentall. This man has written a lot of books about psychiatry and the bad practices of this area. For example in one of him books discuss serious questions about the treatment of mental illness.

Bentall said that one sing of sanity in this society is the ability to deal with disagreements, it is a critic to the other professionals of mental illness how discuss all the time about his theories and doesn’t worries for the people who needs them.

Bentall’s thesis is that, the psychiatric and all the mental illness’s investigators search advances in the brain understanding and try to discover the better drug for the treatment. But the psychiatric do nothing for the human welfare.

Besides Bentall add the problem of diagnostic categories, he said that what are conventionally called psychiatric “symptoms” should be named “complaints”. An explanation for that critic is the notion of heritability, a theory about genetics bases of mental illness.

We know that Bentall is an anti psychiatrist, but want to do a distinction about being "anti-psychiatrist" and "anti-psychiatry", a common error in medicine. In spite of Bentall is not agreeing with the drugs treatment he recognizes that there are occasions where drugs are the only way for treat the mental disorder. He is open-minded about drug therapy, but it is not used as a panacea or a substitute for treatments that may produce happier outcomes. Also he is not agreeing with the alternative remedies.

The solution is using the interpersonal relationships like a concomitant treatment for the mental illness, not use only the drugs. He said that psychotherapy can help, because a person, unlike a drug, can learn to listen to other person.


Link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/21/doctoring-the-mind-richard-bentall

My favorite food!

I really like to eat, I like all the food especially the dishes that my mother prepare. But my favorite food is the “Pastel de papa”, the sweet one, because in some countries and also in other cities of Chile the “Pastel de papa” is salty, I don’t like that one.

I don’t know what is the especial flavor of the “pastel de papa”, may be is the raisins with my mother made the pastel, or the crushed potato give to the dish a texture and a taste very sweet.

Me, cook, that will never happen, I don’t know cook anything. Even the eggs look bad when I prepare it. So I never cook for my friends anything. Also the “Pastel de papa” is a very difficult dish to prepare.

I eat my favorite dish only when I go to La Serena, because I only like the “pastel de papa” that she does. I tested others but I don’t like. I eat this dish only with my family, but I really enjoy it the moment, also the “pastel de papa” is the favorite dish of my mother so we are very happy when eat them.
I like eat “pastel de papa” with soda and after lucuma ice cream. Is the perfect combination for a dinner.

I think that the pastel de papa is a food for all the year and we can prepare it in any moment, but the “pastel de papa” is a traditional food of Chile so during the country celebrities in September we can eat this dish.

What to do and where to go in Santiago

I live in Santiago from 2008 so I don’t know very much about the city. But I can tell you about the places that should go a foreigner tourist visit in Santiago, well the places I think they should go.

First they can go to the Buin Zoo, because it is very beautiful and the animals are very interesting. Almost the places where they have the animals are very nice and represent the real habitat of the animals. They should go to see the white tiger and the seal show in the pool.

After the tourist should go to Fantasylandia it is an attractions park, the tourist should go there because is the bigger park in the country, and it is very extreme. They should go to the extreme fall game and the new one: tsunami.

If the tourist wants to go to the shopping they should go to Patronato they are a lot of places when sell clothes and very interesting things, but the most important thing is the low prices.

If the tourist are alternative persons they should go to the Eurocentro, because there sell a lot of interesting things about alternative styles and music, well I can’t recommend a shop in particular because that depends of the style.

They can go to the show Moscu on Ice, because is a beautiful show, and the protagonist are very talented and cute.