Article Summary: "Working in a complex intersection: Healing disaster trauma in a foreign culture"

Hello everyone, how are you? I hope you're fine. Today I'll show you a summary I've made of an article I read last week. This article, called "Working in a complex intersection: Healing disaster trauma in a foreign culture" was written this year by Alan Krohn and it belongs to the American Psychoanalyst Magazine 41 Volume.
This article relates the work of a group of psychoanalysts (psychologists) in Sri Lanka. This trip took place in year 2005 and 2006, and its objetive was to study the post-tsunami mental issues that people there suffered.
The first case that this article relates doesn't have a big relation whit the tsunami, but I think that it's a very interesting one and it show us how the unsafe conditions that the tsunami left can affect people from there. It's about a 14 year old child who was assaulted by a man while she was urinating. The man stole her a chain she was wearing, and then forced her to hold some liquid in his mouth, so she couldn't scream while he ran away. After this the child had visions of this episode and fear to walk alone in his enviroment. She said that the man didn't do anything to her, she only was afraid because she thought that she could kill him. Curiosly the gilr fainted every day at 8 o'clock, the same time of the assault she suffered. This was explained by the big stress her body felt at that moment. This is a typical symptom of hysterical cases. Finally the author psychologist discovered that the
cause of the girl’s problems was not her feelings issues but a chemical that has entered her brain. This is a particular hysterical dynamic. They resolved this problem with weekly sesions of therapy. The final conclusions that the group of psychologists took from this trip was that Sri Lanka was a place with a totaly diferent culture, so the ways of concibe issues as the self concept are different, so
they, as occidental psychologists, should study the culture in a deep way to apply all their kwnoledge to the Sri Lanka reality.

A great guitar tab page you can use!!

Hi everyone!

Today I'd like to show you a page that I use to visit very frequently, the page is called lacuerda.net and you can find it on my lynks. This page contains a lot of guitar tabs, and as I love to play guitar, when I want to know how to play a determinated song I search for it in the page and then I can play it. In this page you can also find the possition of the chords that you don't know how to play, some scales to practice and even the instructions to learn how to play guitar! Isn't that amazing?? Well guys I hope you visit the page and you enjoy it as much as I do. See you!!

Summary

Hi there, this day I'm going to write a summary of an article I red that's it's related with Psychology. This article talks about latent inhibition, a phenomenon of the learning process, very important in psychology.

Well, first that all the article defines latent inhibition as a delay in learning of an asociation between two events, that happens when you have been previously exposed (or pre-exposed) to one of this events without the subsequent occurrence of the second event. The explanation that the authors give to this, is that when one event is presented to us without any immediate consequence, we learn this event as that, as one particular event, so then when we try to associate another event it's more difficult, because we have already learned the occurrence of the event without any subsequent consequence (or second event). The important of this phenomenom is that it happens to all of us and it's present in our daily life.

A very interesting topic

Hi everyone! In this oportunity I'm going to talk a very interesting subject that I've been studying in Psychology. The literal translation of this subject would be Psychology of Development. I think that it's very interesting because it talks about the evolution of human as an specie, all through our history. I would that the most grat thing about this topic is that we study the biological evolution and the cultural evolution, and let me say that bouth are quite amazing. Well here I send a couple of links that can give you some information about evolution and development: http://www.ecotao.com/holism/huevo/, http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Areas/CE.html.

I really hope you enjoy it! bye!

This is a typical weekend

Hellow again!!

This time I'm to talk about my last weekend, that way you will be able to know what kind of thing I do in these days or peace and rest. This weekend was great for me, I joined with some friends and we had a lot of fun. Since we are studying at the university we don't have much time to go out, as we did when we were studying at school. In those days we went out every single weekend, on Friday and on Saturday. We really like to have fun, and now we use every moment to get joined and talk, laugh and know what is everyone of us doing with his life. It's been more than a year since we left school and we all separate, but I'm very happy because I see them a lot and I still think of them as my best friends. Here you can see me with three of my best friends, their names: Cale, Chuky and Charly.

Links

Hi everyone!
As you can see, I ve' added a couple of links to my blog. In this links you will find information about psychology, the one I hope is my future profession. Well one of this links belongs to APA, the American Psychologycal Association. This association is one of the most important institutions of psychology. In this this webside you can found the latest investigations of psychology, information about the principal characters in this area and many more things, visit it! The other webside I chose belongs to a very important journal of psychology. It also contains the most recient studies about psychology and psychological therapy. If you think you're getting a little crazy, visit it! jajaja. Well, that's all, bye!

Check out this song...

Well, hellow again. Today I'm going to talk about a song named "Sunday Bloody Sunday". This song belongs to U2. I like it because it has a great melody and it talks about a warlike conflict that happened during a Sunday day. Its content really shows how terrible can a warlike conflict be. On the other hand, U2 has always been a group that fights against violence and injuste in the world. I like that, I think that it's a very noble idea to mix music with this kind of lyrics. Well here we have "Sunday Bloody Sunday"'s lyrics. I really hope you enjoy it and you post something about it. So... bye!!

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...tonight...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday...