My favorite subject

I think my favourite subject is Psychopathology because it has to be with an important area of psychology, clinical psychology.
We have two teachers Luis Alvarado and José Luis Rossi. We learn the theory with Rossi, his classes are so organize and he knows a lot about clinical psychology, also he always tell us a lot of examples about his experience in clinical psychology, that makes his class very interesting. With Alvarado we learn the real experience in clinical psychology because when we have a class with him, we have to go to "El Salvador" hospital, in there, sometimes he brings patients and he interviews them in front of us.
In this subject we have the perfect combination, theory and see the real practice. That's why I like it. Also, I like it because we learn so many things in that class that we will use in our jobs in future. But not all is good because we have to memorize a lot of new terms.
Well, I've learned a lot in this class, clinical terms, real experience with patients and clinical theory.

Creativity and Education

Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education. He explains that education squander children talents, because its structure. This structure is a hierarchy and it has arts in its bottom. That means that education it is not prepared to take children talents and make them grow up. For example, education in present punishes mistakes and that means we are afraid to make mistakes. Been wrong it is not so bad because if you have never been prepared to make mistakes you will never make something original.
So we have to think about what is going on with education in present and education’s fundamental principles. In this way, education has to see children creativity and take the most of their talents, because they are rich in so many ways. Education has to prepare children to see the future by, in Sir Ken Robinson words, “making something of it”.

My Future!

I think future is so unpredictable that you can't tell for sure what you will be doing in future, but I can tell what I would like to be doing in future or what I expect of my future.
In 5 years from now I would like to be a professional psychologist. I don't know what I would like to work in future, but now I think that physical psychoterapy, group therapy or family therapy are interesting things to work.
Now I like this to work in future, but maybe in a few years I'll change my mind because I don't know enough psychology to say that I would like to do this for sure.
Personally I would like to be married in 5 years from now and have 7 children. That was a joke. Seriously I don't know what I would like to be doing in 5 years from now in personal stuff, but I think having a good partner would be nice.
I would like to be living here in Santiago because I like this city in spite of smog, stress or everythig bad that Santiago has. But I think Santiago has all you can't need for a city, except sea.
That would be my "ideal" future, but it's not for sure.

Abraham Maslow

I think Abraham Maslow is one of the best in Psychology because he is one of the founder of the Humanistic module.
Abraham Maslow created a theory about human motivation: The Maslow hierarchy of needs. This theory is described like a pyramid with five leves that have in it's base physiological needs and have in the highest level the self actualization (this is related to have a purpose in life).
I like Maslow because I think people must to have a purpose in life, wich makes sense to people's life. Some people may think that self actualization is an utopic belief or people don't need self actualization to live, but I think that self actualization makes people's life better.
I think Maslow is the one of the best in my area, because he described a theory about human motivation and the last level of his theory makes totally sense to me.

What is Psychology?

In first place, psychology is a discipline who studies human behaviour and mental functions. It has a scientific method and an object of study: human being.
The good things about psychology is that there are many approaches inside psychology discipline, that is why there are so many things to study. What I like the most of psychology is that you can work in so many different places, becuase human beings are in almost everything.
What I dislike about psychology is psychoanalysis, because in university we had to study it in many subjects. I don't like it because I think that psychoanalysis has too many theories that are speculative and it doesn't have enough scientific support.
I think psychology is one of the most exciting disciplines in the world because it is the study of human being and it can be use everyday in human beings lifes.

Kathy's Prom!

If I'm not wrong, this picture was taken the 20th of December in last year.
That day was very special because it was the prom of one of my best friends, Kathy.
She lives in Viña del Mar and that day I travelled there, because I live in Santiago.
I travelled at the morning, so when I got there we went to the hairdressing saloon.
The party was so great, but the music not so much, because the music was kind of old and the DJ dind't play songs that we like. But It was great after all.
The party finished at 6 in the morning, and we spent the night talking and laughing with her friends, It was really cool.
I'll always remember that day because It was a very special moment to my friend Kathy and It was special for me too, becuase she chose me to go with her in spite of a lot of her friend who lives in Viña del Mar.
I think after that day we became much closer.

My most precious possession

I think my most precious possession is Mokona Modoki. Mokona Modoki is a white teddy bear from CLAMP anime series. CLAMP is an manga-anime group and Mokona appears in many of they series, for example "Magic knight Rayearth", "xxxHOLiC" and "Tsubasa Chronicles".

One day, a special person who I love gave me Mokona Modoki and I really loved it. I always saw Mokona in a showcase at Eurocentro, and it became mine last year on 10th October.

Mokona Modoki has a red gem in her face and has huge ears. In the anime series there are two Mokonas, the white and the black one. The wizards Yuuko and Clown created them. Both of them can communicate from different worlds and they also can send things to each other by eating things! It's so cute when they do that.