Psychology and emotional health

What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is considered a theory (likefunctionalism,structuralismandhumanism) and atherapeutic method, created by the Austrian doctor and neurologistSigmund Freud(1), which deals with theanalysis of the unconsciousof the person to try to understand behaviors, feelings and ways of thinking. This is how psychoanalysis argues, that psychological disordersarise as a result of the incorrect manifestationof defense mechanisms to resolve mental …

What is clinical psychology? Clinical psychology is a branch of general psychology that is responsible for the evaluation,diagnosis, prevention and treatment of people suffering from some pathologies of psychological origin, which is aimed at the recovery of mental health and quality of lifeofthe human being. (1) You should know: The creator of the term “clinical psychology” and the …

What is educational psychology? The psychology of education or also calledEducational Psychology, is abranch ofpsychology that deals with thestudy of learning to achieve human development, emphasizing that psychology is the science that specializes incognitive processes. (1) In this context, educational psychology is the study of how welearn and how we teach andis also responsible for addressingproblems related …

What is consumer psychology? Consumer psychology or also called “Psychology of Consumption”, is a branch or discipline of general psychology, which deals with  studying the behavior that motivates the human being in the decision-making process, for the acquisition or consumption of some good or service. (1) This discipline is a tool used in the marketing area (2) of large companies, to …

What is developmental psychology? Developmental psychology, also calledPsychology of Human Development, is a branch of general psychology, which focuses on the study of the evolutionary changes that human beings experience throughout each stage of their lives in the psychic and organic aspect. (1) In itself, this discipline is concerned with knowing and understanding the reason why …

What is family psychology? Family psychology is one of the branches of general psychology, which is responsible forstudying, analyzing and resolving those conflicts that arise within the family. In this sense, the family psychologist does not visualize the family as separateforms but visualizes it from the global perspective, that is, as a system. (1) To highlight: This discipline …

What is forensic psychology? Forensic psychology is abranchof general psychology that mainly acts in thejudicial process, which is carried out in the courts and deals with the study of thebehavior of the human being within the legal system. For some authors, forensic psychology is “the science that teaches the application of all branches and knowledge of Psychology …

What is work psychology? Work psychology, also calledLabor and Organizational Psychology, is abranch of general psychology, which deals withstudying the psychological phenomena that arise because of the employment relationship. It also deals with studyinghuman behavior and the reasons that motivate its behavior, in the performance of its functions within the company. (1) You should know: This branch of …

What is systemic psychology? Systemic psychology is aspecialty of general psychology, which was born in the mid-twentieth century and focuses on theobservation and study of communicational processes and interrelationthat occur in any social group, but its interest is in thecomponents and relationships that arisefrom the relationship in the family as a whole. (1) Taking into consideration …

What is consciousness? The definition of the word conscious, linked to the world of the human psyche, is made by the Austrianpsychologist and doctor Sigmund Freud, which he describes as: “The subjective face of a part of the physical processes that occur in the neural system, especially the perceptual processes …”and later “Consciousness is but a sensory organ for the perception of …