Basic learning processes

I'm going to talk about the Basic learning processes class. The teacher is Mr. Wilson and in class, he talks about different  Psychological Approaches and significant theories we can apply in real life. For example, in a typical class we can talk about the motivation theories or the Attachment theory. It's very interesting 'cause we can always discuss, like most of my classmates do. They make a lot of questions and the teacher always tries to answer all of them. Sometimes he also gives us homework to do about the different theories we reflect on and we can add and interview or something like that.

I like the class 'cause it's offer us different views from the different Psychological Approaches like behaviorism, psychoanalysis and humanism. I think the teacher thinks human is something more than stimulus and response and that's why he gives attention to Humanism when another teachers don't talk so much about it. I think that's great. Also, I like the class 'cause sometimes Mr. Wilson talk about real cases and that's very interesting.

An expert on the field

Donald Winnicott was an English pediatrician and psychiatrist, who practiced the psychoanalysis. He was born in Plymouth, England, on the April 7th of 1896 and died in London, England, on the January 28th of 1971.  He was from the third generation after Freud. He has two big theories in the field: the true self and false self theory and the transitional object theory. As he was a pediatrician, his researches were focus on babies and their relationship with their mothers.

I like him 'cause I think he was a brave psychoanalyst, 'cause he proposed things that were opposite to the theories of the psychoanalysis of the age. He situated the concept of "self", giving it a meaning more powerful than "I"s meaning. The original psychoanalysis says that there's no something like "personality", the "I" is just a compilation of identifications. He said there was something called "true self", where it was a space for authenticity. He was also brave when he was one of the few who opposed to the electroshock, based on the science.

Lights, Camera, Action!

I really like to go to the cinema. I try to go once a month. I love so many kinds of movies, like thrillers, drama, comedy, romantics, biographies... whatever with a good story.

I don't think I have an "all-time favourite film", but I'm going to talk about "The boy in the striped pyjamas" 'cause I think it's such a wonderful movie, wich always get you excited and then can make you fall and feel really sad for the end. It's about two friends, Bruno and Shmuel, in the world war II. They're just kids, but one of them is an officer's son and the other one is Jewish and it's on a Nazi concentration camp. They talk each other with a fence between them. Bruno doesn't know what's going on so, in his innocence, he thinks the clothes that Shmuel and the other people behind the fence use are "striped pyjamas". The movie counts with Asa Butterfield as Bruno, Jack Scanlon as Shmuel and Vera Farmiga and David Thewlis as Bruno's parents, in the main characters. I've watched it just a few times, but I definitely recommend it, and the book too!

I would like to see again "The Great Gastby", but the old version now. I think the new one is good, but it disturbs me that they put music of our age in the soundtrack! I mean, it's the 20's! So, I'd really like to see the old one to see if it keeps better the spirit of the age.