Dreaming about my future...

I consider it is funny to think about what I would like to be doing five years from now. Professionally, I would love to work as a communitarian psychologist in issues such as poverty and environmental problems, having direct contact with people everyday and working together to achieve a transformation of social reality. Furthermore, I would like to do some post-graduate course maybe about communitarian interventions, in Chile or abroad. On a personal level, I do not know if I could point out specific expectatives, but overall I would like to continue growing as a person and also working about my spiritual development. I would like to live in an old apartment in the Barrio Bellas Artes, near Parque Forestal, or continue living with my mom, which would be very nice. Finally I would like to continue participating as volunteer of Un techo para Chile, going out with friends, sharing with my family, meeting new people, places and traditions, and enjoying every moment. Dreaming is wonderful, but so is putting all our energies on making those dreams a reality. See you, greetings!

Michel Foucault

I think a very important person for psychology’s field is Michel Foucault, he is not a psychologist but he developed significant contributions considered and used by social psychology, especially in its most critical current and legal psychology. Michel Foucault was a french philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title “History of Systems of Thought", and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. Foucault's work on power, and the relationships between power, knowledge, and discourse has been widely discussed. In the 1960s Foucault was often associated with the structuralist movement. Foucault later distanced himself from structuralism. While Foucault was always typically characterized by the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels, he personally rejected the postmodernist and post-structuralist labels, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity, rooted in Kant. Although Foucault is not defined as a psychologist I consider him the best in thinking about power relations in various fields, and whose principles have been widely used by social psychology in general. I like Foucault because he proposed a new way of understanding knowledge, subjectivity and social structure among others.
I hope you like learning more about him, greetings!

My lovely career

First, I think that it is difficult to imagine a single reason to study psychology, so that there are multiple reasons. I am interested in psychology since I was about 12, basically because I consider it theoretically interesting and it is also possible to understand people and help them in various aspects. Psychologists can help in many areas of society, as in the clinical, educational, forensic, organizational and communitarian areas, mainly integrating their knowledge and using it in relation to the different situations they face. It is difficult to define a unique profile of psychologist, but I believe that some features cross the different branches of psychology. I guess some of these skills are the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, in situations of crisis, with people of low economic level, ability to work in communitarian programs, ability to write psychological reports, knowledge of empirical research and methodology, to communicate the work by charts, tables and statistics, manage informatic softwares and English language. My favorite subject is communitarian psychology, because I am very interested in issues of social conflicts, specially poverty and environmental problems, I also like the communitarian perspective of social processes. Finally, I invite you to internalize in the different approaches and areas of psychology.