Psychology and emotional health

Speech disorder is a difficulty that occurs very commonly during childhood, which can manifest as a sign that something bigger may be going on in the body. One of these disorders is echolalia. In this article, we explain what echolalia consists of and we mention the possible causes that can generate it. What is echolalia? Echolalia is a medical term to identify …

The consequences of the pathologies that occur in the Central Nervous System are varied, which can cause cognitive damage, in speech, in language, among others. One of these disorders is related to body movement and is called echopraxia. In this article, we will explain what echopraxia consists of and we will mention the causes for which it can occur. What is ecopraxia? Ecopraxia …

What are psychological schools? Psychological schools could be defined as that institution where professionals of psychology or related specialties converge, in which they share the same doctrines of thought, analysis and assessment on a well-identified object of study. These psychological schools also serve as a place of learningof defined psychological aspects, for the study of the …

What is structuralism? Structuralism is aphilosophical movement and a psychological current, emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, which then becomes a research method used by the social sciences to analyze society and its components, from a systemic perspectiveand takes as a model for the analysis of human behavior, the exact sciences, but in itself, It is not …

What is phantosmia? Phantosmia is an olfactory hallucination, in which the patient falsely perceives odors that are not present in the surrounding environment, affecting their quality of life. (1) Note: Phantosmia should not be confused with parosmia, which is another disorder in the perception of odor that is present in the environment, only that it is distorted. …

What is functionalism? It is a theoretical current that emerged in England in the early twentieth century in the social sciences, mainly inSocial AnthropologyandSociology. From the sociological perspective, functionalist theory proposed that thesocial structure of a system is built from the optimal functioning ofall the structures that integrate it(1), based on the proposal of the “Systems Theory”. (2) …

What is humanism? Humanismis a philosophical, intellectual and cultural currentthat focuses its attention on the human being. The origin of humanism was in the Middle Ages between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, whose conceptbreaks with the paradigm that God is the center of the universeand revaluing the dignity of man. In this sense, humanism is …

What is the unconscious? The term unconscious has its meaning in psychoanalysis and is described in the levels of consciousness of Sigmund Freud (1) as the most hidden part of the human psyche and is constituted of all those mental processes, which do not depend on a priority or do not have an importance for the daily events of the …

What is talkativeness? The term of loquacity, has its definition in the Spanish dictionary of theRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) (edition of the tercentenary 2020), which defines it as “quality of loquacious” and that in turn defines this term as“Que habla mucho o mucho“. This word has its etymology in terms of the Latin “loquacĭtas” and …

What is logoclonus? Logoclonus is a term that is used in medicine, to identify a symptom that presents as the spasmodic repetition of a syllable in the middle or at the end of a word or phrase in a multiple and compulsive way (for example: “I want a phone, no no no no”), and sometimes can …