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Divorce: causes, types and keys to overcome it

Relationship breakups have become more frequent over the years, causing many divorces that in turn generate personal, family or work problems, where the two affected people are greatly harmed. It is possible to find several types of divorces, which can be caused by different causes that affect the marriage relationship. This makes stabilization difficult and …

What is The It?: features and functions

Along with the “I” and the “superego“, the “it” is part of the components of the personality according to the current of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. These components, despite having a clear differentiation, do not work separately, but work in coordination maintaining a close relationship and thus define the personality of the individual. In this sense, …

What is the Self?: Characteristics and elements that make it up

Individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, age, are constituted by a personality that through experience, interpersonal contact and the relationship with the environment that surrounds us, we are molding, we are making it our own characteristic. For psychoanalysis, this personality is composed or integrated by three elements that have no structure in the organism, do …

What is the psychodynamic approach and what is its goal?

The study of the elements of our psychic defenseand the motivations of our affective characteristics are studied through psychoanalysis, which opens its applications with various tools such as thepsychodynamic approach. In this sense, the psychodynamic approach was born mainly with Freud, by the end of the nineteenth century and has different elementary considerationsdepending on everything that is part of …

Anger: what it is, causes and health effects

Anger is anemotion with which we all live, which has been the protagonist of many tragedies, but in other cases has put order and justice in society. Several psychologists express thatwe have the right to feel angry, but not to attack under their influence. Being in a state of anger, can present different harmful characteristicsin our temperament andcharacter, …

What is behavioral genetics and what is its object of study?

Why are we different?, Why do we act in one way and others? , Why are we so similar to our parents, our grandparents?, Why do we bring pathologies from birth?. These questions have acommon denominator from the biological point of viewand has to do withhuman genetics. The traits with which we are born, the behavior we show, there are even …