Psicología y conciencia

Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas—and progress itself. Dopamine is ...

En este libro, el gran psicólogo ruso Lev Vygotski estudia el desarrollo de la percepción, la atención, la memoria, el lenguaje y el juego, y analiza su influencia en la educación de los niños. El resultado es un texto de extraordinaria utilidad pedagógica que se ha convertido en una obra clásica, todavía no superada, del pensamiento psicológico moderno.

The human mind is a puzzle without a solution, despite people having tried to find one since the beginning of philosophy and, later, science. It has been studied from different perspectives by philosophers, theologians, mystics, psychologists, biologists, and many others in various disciplines, and it holds a major importance for us and the physical world. Thoughts, desires, feelings, and creativity develop in the human mind. To understand the mind is to understand one's self. In this book, discover the significance of this knowledge in order to understand the processes of the brain. The...

Tanto «El pensamiento del corazón» (1981) como «Anima mundi: el retorno del alma al mundo» (1982) constituyen dos innovadores ensayos que arrojan la psicología arquetípica, iniciada por C. G. Jung, hacia una nueva dirección: el mundo. James Hillman denomina a ésta «psicología profunda de la extroversión», una terapia que va más allá de la consulta y de las concepciones personalistas y que pretende enseñarnos a recuperar una vida del corazón y del alma partiendo del platonismo, Ficino y Henry Corbin. El examen que Hillman desarrolla sintéticamente en su primer ensayo trata de ...