An expert I admire

Hi everyone!. Today I'm going to talk about an Expert I admire in my field. I'm a student of psychology, I'm in my first year. I know just a little of what I'm expected to learn in my career, but for what I know now, I'm going to tell you a little about Carl Gustav Jung and his work, for whom I take my hat off.

Carl Gustav Jung, born in 1875, Switzerland, was a psychiatrist, psychologist and an essayist; as you can see, a remarkable man. His figure in those fields was very important in the initial stage of psychoanalysis; and also he was the founder of the school of analytical psychology, also known as complex psychology and depth psychology. He is often related to Sigmund Freud, because he was his collaborator at his beginnings. Jung's theoretical and clinical approach emphasized the functional connection between the structure of the psyche and its products. This motivated him to incorporate in his methods some ideas  from anthropology, alchemy, dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy.  Jung wasn't the first in the field of dreams. However, his contributions to the dream analysis were extensive and highly influential.

When he was starting his career, he admired Eugen Bleuler a lot, Pierre Janet and, above all, Sigmund Freud.These experts were very meaningful to him, because they allowed him to start creating his own thoughts about the psychoanalysis.The creation of a method for the dream analysis and its interpretations were very important for understanding psychotic symptoms.

His big importance to me, is the distinctive way to study the human behavior. He named to certain patterns of behavior as "archetypes". These archetypes could disturb the way in which the human awareness can experiment the world and perceive themselves; besides, they could lead implicit the matrix of possible answers that it's possible to observe, in a certain moment, in the particular behavior of a subject. In this meaning, Jung believed that the archetypes act in all men, what allowed to postulate the existence of a collective unconscious. This postulate made him very famous.

As you can see, he was a very important, very versatile in so many fields and a very curious man, who could transcend thanks to all of this features. His legacy, as the one of many other interesting studious, is very important to understand the development of my field and others that are mentioned above.

Thanks for reading.

A band I like

Hi!, today I'm going to talk about a band I like. This is really hard, because I love music, but if I have to choose a band, I have to say that my favourite is Beirut, which is considered by me as the best band ever. I don't know how many people are aware about their existence, don't know how popular they are, but they make a very good music. In case you don't know them, I'll tell you a little bit of what is their style. Their music combines elements from eastern Europe, folk music and mexican music. As you can see, it's a very unique style, or at least a very different one. I have to tell you, that this is what I like the most.

As a band, they started to make their very first presentations on may of 2006, to promote their launch album "Gulag Orkestar". Their leader is their vocalist, Zach Condon, who started as a solo project and then created this band. They are american, by the way.

My favourite song by Beirut is "Postcards from Italy", because everytime I listen to this song I just let go and relax. They have some other very good songs, like "Elephant gun", "Scenic world" or "Santa fe". I just want to say that I'd love to see them someday in a concert.

Here is a video, if you want to listen to them. I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61BVv6pLtw

My Autobiography.

Hi!, I’m about to tell you a little bit of who I am. My name is Paula Araya Oyarce, I was born in Santiago, Chile, 24 years ago, in the neighborhood of La Florida, the same neighborhood where I live actually. There are three of us in my family, there’s my mum, my brother and me, I consider that my mother and my brother are both very nice and very warm people. I went to many different schools when I was little, ‘cause of many reasons; but my last years I studied in Alcantara de la Cordillera high-school, where I graduated.  When I was 17 years old, I was admitted by the UMCE to study kinesiology. I studied for 5 years, but I wasn’t comfortable with the career, so I decided that it was necessary to let it go, and take a look inside of me to see what would really make me happy, in a vocational way. So I found out that what I wanted was Psychology, career that I started this very year.

I have a lot of hobbies, but most of them imply to be on my own. For example, I like to read, I like to write, I like to play guitar (I’m not good at it, but I enjoy it), I like to take long rides in bike. But what it love the most is taking my bag and go visit for the day to any nearly place, with a lot of trees and fresh air. However, there are some others hobbies that I love to do with my friends and groups, like dance salsa, have a nice afternoon sharing drinks, etc. From the things that I like, but are not hobbies, I love animals and home-cooked meal.