La alianza terapéutica

Es una introducción a la psicología del tacto. En este primer vídeo se destaca la capacidad del sentido háptico (tacto activo y propositivo) para realizar finísimas discriminaciones entre un número importante de dimensiones estimulares. Se muestran métodos de investigación específicos en el Laboratorio de Percepción Háptica, aparatos utilizados para la realización de experimentos, recogida de datos por ordenador, registro y análisis de movimientos manuales, y tipos de estímulos utilizados.

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts--Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak--that we owe many of the great contributions to society... In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also...

It's true that human beings as a species are equipped with a brain that allows us to think and carry out a series of complex functions. Thanks to our gray matter, we are able to make use of superior faculties such as intelligence, willpower, freedom, and consciousness, among others. However, if reasoning is a quality that distinguishes us, why don't we put it at the service of our happiness? Our actions affect others, and as much as we take responsibility for our personal mental health, we act for the benefit of others, always searching for a better quality of life and a healthy life that's...

El tema principal desarrollado en El malestar de la cultura es la contradicción permanente entre determinados impulsos y las restricciones que impone la cultura. En este contexto, el despliegue y la satisfacción de las pulsiones sexuales y agresivas se convierten en sentimientos de culpa, bajo los parámetros de lo no permitido. De esta manera se genera en los individuos, insatisfacción y sufrimiento y por tanto, un “malestar” que no se termina.