The last one!

This is a very long academic year, not only for the duration it is very long also, because we had to do a lot of class works and tests. This year we had seven subjects every semester, because we had English such as obligatory subject during the two terms. Personally I liked much more the first term because the subjects was more interesting and in my opinion the subjects of the first term was more productive. The subjects of the first term were psychological systems and theories, social psychology, psychopathology, neurophysiology, develop psychology, English III and statistics II. And during the second term we have cognitive neuroscience, develop psychology II, social psychology II, introduction to the psychological evaluation, psychiatry, English IV and qualitative methodology.

During this year I think that my academic performance was good, despite this semester I had troubles with a subject because I didn’t understand the content of the class, but this doesn’t matter anymore because I understand the content now.

I’m going to start for the subjects of first term. The subject I like the most was statistics II because the numbers relaxed me; I guess you are asking now why chose this career if I like so much the numbers, well that have an explication, it is because I don’t like the math and equations and all of that, I like read but in this career we read a lot and I bored of that, so the numbers relax me and makes me think in other things different to the books and letters, it is my favorite subject also because I had a excellent an grade. Psychopathology and psychiatry was other of my favorite subjects because the mental disorders and the personality disorders like me a lot, and my marks in those subjects were very good.

Usually I have good grades in the test and works, but obviously not always because in the university that it is not rare, all of us have bad or regular grades sometimes.

The others subject like me too, and in my opinion I had a good academic performance in all of them, I really study a lot for all the subjects and that is reflected in the most of my grades and class works, I think that I am a very good student, but for that I don’t have a life!. Well the second semester is almost over, and I think that my academic performance was only regular in this term, because it was a very strange term and some subjects I really don’t like. So, the other year I will have better grades, I promise!.

Thanks for all Teacher Alvaro, the class was very good...=D.

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.

the last movie a saw!

Yesterday I was really bored so I see a movie at night. The film was about kingdoms, princess, Knight and dragons. Fire and ice was the name of the film. But is not the kind of movie about a knight who fights with the dragon to save the princess and win her love. Is about a kingdom in danger because the attacks of a fire dragon and for that the princess search a dragon slayer in the wood to save her kingdom, but theis a problem: the man was dead. However she found her son and he accept fight with the dragon. They fight together with the dragon, and when the dragon is dead the kingdom is safe again so the princess and the dragon slayer son falling in love and happily ever after.

The best thing of the movie it was the places and the music used for the scenes, the wood was very beautiful and the castle The characters were the king and the queen, his daughter and the slayer dragon, and the dragons of course. I don’t remember the protagonist names; it was a movie set in the medieval age so

the names was a little strange for me.

I saw the movie alone in my house at yesterday night, when the rest of the country saw the football game Chile v/s Venezuela. It was a good movie if you like the medieval age and the dragons it is your movie.

Transantiago!

I think the transantiago isn’t bad for me because where I live the transantiago System is very useful and fast. But in other places the transantiago don’t works very well. I can’t talk much about the pre- transantiago system because I live in Santiago since 2008, when the transantiago system it was installed. But years ago I use the pre-transantiago system in summer vacations here in Santiago. I think the transantiago is better because there are more buses and more routes but the buses are few any way. The Bip card is the best thing about the new system because the driver don’t use money in the bus and the thieves don’t assault them anymore, but for the people is more difficult because sometimes they forget the Bip card and they have troubles to use the bus.

For me the new system is good because I don’t have troubles. The buses pass near of my department and near of the university.

I don’t stay in Santiago when it started the system but I saw in the news the troubles with the transantiago. I think that now is better because there are more routes and busses and the people don’t have many troubles to travel in transantiago as the first months.

I change the frecuence of the busses and I add more busses.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

There exist many places where I would like to go, but my favorite place is Egypt. I would like to go to the Sahara desert because that my dream since I was a child, a long time ago.

In the Sahara desert we can find the most wonderful monuments in the world. These monuments are the pyramids, the Giza pyramid complex and its great sphinx, and the Valley of the Kings, there are more but they are not so important. I really want to know the sphinx and its mysteries, history and secrets; it is very interesting for me.

If I traveled to Egypt I would like to visit the Cairo museum, because there are the most representative things of the ancient Egypt and the sculptures of the different Pharaohs and gods. I would like to visit the different places where the Egyptologists do their research about the mummies and the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.

I would like to study in Egypt, but I don’t want to study psychology there, I would like to study Egyptology with Zahi Hawas the most important Egyptologist in that country. He knows everything about Egypt and its mysteries, also the University of Cairo is the best in history and obviously in Egyptian history, and for that reason I would like to study there.

I hope visit Egypt some day.

FIRST TERM: GOOD AND BAD POINTS

My experiences during the first term of this year were very interesting because I learned a lot of things.

During the first term I went to neurohypnosis classes, it was a workshop here in the Universidad de Chile. I went with my classmates of psychology to the classes so it was really funny. I learned to hypnotize only with my voice and a pencil. Now a can I say to my patients: “you are very relaxed and you want to sleep” and when the patient is in trance I request her/him to do things such as to talk about something or do something with the body, for example, elevate the arms. The hypnosis was the best thing of the first term.

In psychology I had six subjects: psychopathology, neurophysiology, statistics, developing psychology, social psychology and theory and systems. My favorite subject was psychopathology because we studied the personality disorders and their classification of symptoms. Obviously the other subjects were very useful for the career but I didn’t like then much.

I didn’t practice sports, but during the first semester I went to the gym.

Challenges? I had a lot during all the term. Because in every subject we had very difficult tests and written works. We needed much time to do all the works and to study for the tests, I didn’t have much time for me but it doesn’t matter because the university is the most important now. So I didn’t see much my family or friends.

English four!!!!

blogging experience

It is the first time that I use the internet and specifically the blog for a subject, there was a very interesting experience, and very useful for me and my classmates, because I learned to write better in English, I understand how to use the grammar, not only memorize the forms, for example subject plus verb plus other thing, it was very useful for that, and I feel that I learn more than the last year and I really learn more than all the English years in the school.

I enjoy doing the blog because was a new experience and I could learn a lot of things that I didn’t know, so it was very beneficial for my English education, almost the review of the blog in class or by mail, there was beneficial for me because I could learn about my mistakes and the mistakes of my classmates.

Like I said before, the blogging experience improve it my English, but this is my impression so I hope seeing reflect in the last marks of the subject. And finally my opinion about the experience I think that use of the blog had two advantages, first give us a new education method and the second one it is the use of the new technology for the English education, use something that everybody use like the blogs.

My ideal job

My ideal work, I don’t know maybe it would be watching TV all day and someone pays me for that, but that is so unreal, and also it is useless for the humanity, and for that I think it is not something to do the whole life.

Now talking seriously, my ideal work would be to work in a psyachiatric hospital, in the experimental area doing research about schizophrenia and the personality disorders, maybe to find some cure or a better method for the treatments of those disorders, and giving a better quality life to people who have this problem. The ideal part of a job for me would be to help others with their illnesses and see the good results of a treatment, to live through with the patient all the progress of the recovery.

The only thing that I need to do this work is empathy and th enough sensibility to understand the patient’s problems.
I think that I have these abilities, so I would be good for the job if I have the opportunity to do it. Because it is difficult to find a job like that because investigation in psychology is difficult to do because I need a lot of money to do it, but working in a clinic is not so difficult so I will start to do that when I finish the career.

My favorite subject

I think my favorite subject is psychopathology because I love the class and the contents of the subject are very interesting for me. Some contents of this semester were personality disorders, perception disorders, delirium and schizophrenia. It was very interesting when the teacher did the delirium class because he told us a lot of examples about clinical cases that he personally saw in the psychiatric hospital; also he imitated some patients for us, so we could understand what he said.

Other interesting thing about this subject was the visit to the “El Salvador” hospital. We visited the psychiatric area of the hospital, but not the place where they have the patient interned. We had some classes in a classroom inside the hospital and the teacher sometimes brought patients to the class. One of them called Eliza did the class, but she talk about herself and her delirium, and explained us her life and why she was interned. That was very rare, but necessary because reading about the disorders is not the same as seeing them. And we must be prepared for the future, therefore we must confront the reality and see patients, not only read or listen about them.

Ken Robinson talk about creativity and education

In the video mister Robinson talk about the education's system and the mistakes make it for the schools connect with the creativity, Ken explains that arts and music are devaluate for the schools whom brings more importance to the mathematics and the humanism, and exist consequences for that, serious consequences for the future, this consequences are a less development of creativity because mister Robinson says, the people are afraid of making mistakes and the errors are stigmatize in this age, well in all of them, but if the people aren’t prepared for the mistakes, never can be original and the creativity will not develop for the system, many kids lost the creativity capacity, and who has the fault?, the family?, maybe sometimes, but Ken says the fault is in the education, it is because they don’t teach that commit mistakes is good, not always of curse, but the mistakes are good for the creativity and his development.

And this problems in the education are universal, it occurs in the entire earth planet, why says Ken that? Because in all the countries the subjects are the same, the important subjects are mathematics and language, the second one are the humanism and science and the last ones are the arts, this is not good for the creativity development, the arts as important as mathematics or science.

My future??

Hi again people today I'm going to talk about my future...

I would like to be doing in five years more, I am not sure but I think I would like to work in a psyachiatric hospital, doing research about schizophrenia and the personality disorders, maybe find some cure or a better method for the treatement of this disorders, and giving a better quality of life to the people who have this problem.

Also I hope I can be working in a clinic, see patients with personals problems or mental disorders, I would like to have a personal office without schedules or any boss.

And personally I would like to have an engagement with someone (I hope with my actual couple), maybe live together in a big apartment in other country sush as England for example, I would like to have a little dog or some kind of animal, I don't know, I only hope to be happy.

Also I would like to travel to Europe and Asia with my couple (and dog...=D), and visit a lot of museums and historical places, go to Egypt and see the pyramids, and I'd like to visit the stonehenge monument in England, maybe live in a city close it.

this it my ideal future, well it is only a hope....

see ya.

Sigmund Freud

The best psychologist for me is Sigmund Freud, he was an psychiatrist and neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic theory in psychology, and developed almost all the concepts and theories use today in the psychology.

Freud is consider like the father of psychology, and is the most quote person in the area and even in other areas.

I little history about his life, Freud was born in Austria in 1856, he studied medicine in the university of vienna, and later in 1885 Freud went to Paris when he studied the Hysteria with Charcot and its susceptibility to hypnosis, but years later Freud developed his own theory about the disorder with Breuer, with whom wrote “studies of hysteria”, and his most famous patient Ana O. became famous, when she said that Freud was discovered the appropriate treatment of hysteria and she called it “the talking cure”.

Well, the studies of hysteria the Freud aren’t the most important contributions in psychology, Freud also developed a lot of theories about sexuality and for that he became famous, he studied the child sexuality in the Edipo complex, and later he made a theory, maybe his most famous theory, called the Psychosexual development.

Also Freud developed the id, super ego and ego theory, called at present psyche theory, and with this Freud talked about Unconscious, conscious and pre conscious.

Freud developed a lot of theories that was the bases to psychology, and for that I think that Freud was, and is the best in psychology.

see ya...

:D

Me and the psychology...

Hi again people, today I’m going to talk about psychology…

I remember that I always wanted to study psychology, but in the lasts years of high school there wasn’t my intention, I wanted to study medicine and later psychiatry, but the PSU score didn’t help me much, so I had to come back to the first idea, and here I am…Thanks PSU!!

Psychology was my first idea because I like a lot the paranormal things so I wanted to study parapsychology, but first I had to study psychology, and this was the beginning of the story.

Well I like this career because mix science, social science and mathematics, is not always the same, there are university courses from animal behavior to statistics. Is really interesting, I like the mind studies and the human behavior, I enjoy the career a lot, specially the psychopathology’s part, when in the courses we talk about symptoms and signs of the illness, the causes and cures, and the most interesting part is the patients.

In all the happy stories are a bad things and this is not the exception, like I said I really enjoy with the science’s part of psychology, but the humanism’s part is very unpleasant for me, but I try to do the best I can.

My future in the psychology, well I like the neuro science but that field is difficult to find in this country so I think I will be a clinical psychologist…

And the paranormal thing, well I think it wills a really interesting hobby.

See ya!