Management of life by fear

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, 400 years before Christ was the founder of Buddhism. I do not know much about the religion he has left, beyond what I need for certain understandings of contemporary philosophy. But, I find it interesting to start this post, to know...

Love

Love is a trap. In the way we live it in today, it was invented by social networks. Fast, intense, highly addictive and fleeting, it seems like a crack doze, as soon as its intense effect passes, the emptiness and necessity returns. But it was not always that way....

Cognitive conceptualization

leia aqui em português. The cognitive conceptualization, or cognitive map, is an evaluation tool focused on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is a strategy of understanding the cognitive processes, which allows, in an objective, organized and didactic way, to define...

Grudge, hatred, and sorrow

Frustration, fear, anger and sadness are emotions with organic bases so strong that, around the planet, almost all mammals are able to feel them in a similar way to what we experience. These primary emotions and their opposites, satisfaction, trust, love and joy, also...

Mothers day

Leia em português. We joke in psychology, that everything is always the mother’s fault. And it is! She is the first safe place between the newly created biological being and the surrounding environment. Being then, necessarily, the intermediary of the relation...

Peace can not be bought with money

Peace is not a bargaining chip. So, it does not have its coming guaranteed after the war, and after the death, no one knows. But in contemporary times, peace can be easily understood as the opposite of affliction. The negative mental restlessness that comes with two...