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25 Quotes from Mario Benedetti

My Grandfather's Legacy: An Eternal Bond

4 Signs You're Dealing with a Narcissist

Everything Will Fall into Place

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Your Need for Approval Distances You From Your Essence

5 Charlie Chaplin phrases to apply to your life

Why Was Freud a Revolutionary?

Johanna Arendt was persecuted for being Jewish and also for being German. For many years, she was &quot;stateless&quot;. Perhaps that&#039;s why she developed a pluralistic way of thinking.

Johanna Arendt, A Pluralist Thinker

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What celebrities with mental disorders do you know? In this article, we talk about some of those who&#039;ve decided to make their illness visible in order to break taboos.

Eight Celebrities With Mental Disorders

Why do we like simulation games? What&#039;s so good about them? In this article, we talk about a way of returning to childhood, with all its advantages (and even more), in the context of an imaginative and fun experience.

Simulation Games: Why Are They so Popular?

Being alone can be a two-sided coin. Sometimes, you enjoy it and at others you avoid it.

Some Curious Facts About Loneliness

Fantastic stories, essays, novels... Behind any book, of any genre, you can find a story that really leaves its mark on you, the lucky reader. 

Ten Books To Make You Think. They Might Even Change Your Life

An increasing amount of people who are divorced, separated, or don&#039;t have any family responsibilities are now living alone. For many, it&#039;s a fulfilling experience. However, others are suffering in silence due to the loneliness of living alone. 

Living Alone After 50 Is Becoming Increasingly Common

Mothers usually take special care with certain risk factors during pregnancy. However, what about their emotional life? What role does it play in the development of the fetus?

Can Babies Feel Their Mothers' Emotions in the Womb?

The Quetelet index, later renamed the BMI, has made several companies a lot of money. What&#039;s behind it?

The Quetelet Index: A Statistician's Work Used to Make Money

There&#039;s a medical mystery that&#039;s both extraordinary and terrifying at the same time. People with dehiscence syndrome can hear the movement of their eyeballs and even the circulation of blood ascending to their brain.

Dehiscence Syndrome: Hearing Your Eyes Move and Your Blood Circulate

Pregnancy is a revolution for a woman&#039;s body. During the nine months of gestation, her body adapts to various changes, many of which aren&#039;t obvious to an outside observer.

The Invisible Changes of Pregnancy

During a respected delivery, the woman feels respected, listened to, and owns her own experience of childbirth. Find out what psychological benefits this type of childbirth brings.

Respected Childbirth and Its Psychological Importance

Do you feel overwhelmed by spending too much time with your partner? Do you need your own personal space but don&#039;t know how to tell them? Cultivating autonomy will be beneficial both for your relationship and for you and your partner, individually. We explain why it&#039;s so important.

The Importance of Personal Space in a Relationship

Sexual intelligence has nothing to do with your prowess as a lover. It&#039;s related to your generosity, honesty, and intelligence. The kind that breaks down prejudices, fears, and stereotypes.

Sexual Intelligence: A Skill We All Need to Learn

When you fall for someone, you might lose your head and only let your heart speak. This can lead you to make mistakes, the kind that you should be aware of. 

Nine Mistakes You Make When You Like Someone

Some people prefer to have casual sex. The kind in which there&#039;s no emotional connection with the other. This inclination is called sociosexuality.

Sociosexuality: Having Sex Without Commitment or Emotional Attachment

&quot;I love you, but I&#039;m leaving you.&quot; It seems like a contradiction, breaking up a relationship when love still exists. How can you deal with these situations? Find out here.

How to Leave Someone You Love

Dopamine dysregulation syndrome is a rare complication of Parkinson&#039;s disease treatment. It triggers serious behavioral disturbances.

Dopamine Dysregulation Syndrome

A child&#039;s body undergoes physical changes, some of which are not particularly obvious. Many of these changes occur in the brain. We explain what happens inside the brain when children misbehave.

Neuroscience Can Explain Children's Bad Behavior

Why do we cry? Why is it a reaction we&#039;ve retained as we&#039;ve evolved over time?  What&#039;s its function, beyond cleaning the eyes  when there&#039;s a foreign body in them? We tell you  about crying and its fundamental role in different social scenarios.

What Happens to Your Body When You Cry?

It&#039;s time to break one more gender stereotype and state that men can be as emotional as women. The problem lies in society, which penalizes them for expressing their feelings and showing vulnerability.

Science Claims That Men Are as Emotional as Women

How you feel is influenced by different factors and variables. Hormones are one example. They&#039;re protagonists when you feel bad as well as when you feel good.

Hormones Play a Leading Role in How You Feel

We&#039;ve all known stubborn people. I once remember two people arguing about which one of them was more stubborn. They got nowhere.

What Are Stubborn People Like?

Non-pathological narcissists have an emotional armor to protect their weak and fearful selves. However, where does such a fragile self come from?

Non-Pathological Narcissism and Emotional Armor

Being ourselves, listening to our hearts, and not ignoring our emotions. There&#039;s a certain romanticism in the behavior of visceral people.

Visceral People, When Instinct Dominates Reason

Recent research has overturned the long-held belief that serotonin deficits underlie depression. In fact, it&#039;s a rather more complex issue.

Science Claims That Serotonin Imbalance Doesn't Cause Depression

Do you have a great fear of contracting a disease? Do you tend to misinterpret and exaggerate your body&#039;s signals? If so, you&#039;ll be interested to learn about hypochondria and nosophobia, two similar yet different disorders.

Hypochondria and Nosophobia: Two Manifestations of the Fear of Illness

Gripped as we are by an almost endless succession of crises and unpredictable events, it seems that we&#039;re more fragile than ever. Indeed, we feel vulnerable. However, this dimension also contains an unusual strength.

In Praise of Fragility, a Great Quality in Complex Times

There are some uncomfortable questions that you should ask yourself to get to know yourself better. However, these are  the kinds of questions that can uncover certain psychological areas that you&#039;ve been neglecting. Will you dare to ask them?

13 Painful Questions You Should Ask Yourself

Mental contrasting is a really useful strategy to use. It employs the moderate dose of optimism that you need for fueling your motivation. We talk about how to perform this technique and take advantage of its results.

Mental Contrasting, a Way of Avoiding Naive Optimism

We&#039;ve collected some of the best quotes from Edgar Allan Poe. You can discover his ideas about beauty, life, death, and madness, among other topics.

25 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

How many times have you had a hard time falling asleep because you couldn&#039;t stop thinking? It happens to all of us. Here, we talk about how to switch off that vicious circle of worrying thoughts. 

Nocturnal Rumination: How to Stop Those Tormenting Nighttime Worries

In the workplace, there are many instruments of control that reflect your competence and performance. In this article, we&#039;re going to talk about orientation, one of the main compromising variables.

How to Stay on Track at Work

How do you manage your tasks at work? Are you comfortable with your organization system? In this article, we&#039;ll talk about the most common mistakes in this area.

Five Mistakes That Stop You From Managing Your Work Tasks Efficiently

Have you ever considered quitting your job? Do you know how to tell whether or not it&#039;s wise to do so? In this article we&#039;ll tell you.

Seven Signs It's Time to Quit Your Job

What happens when your main motivation is simply that others recognize your achievements and progress? Find out here.

The Dangers of Working Solely to Boost the Ego

Theory Z is based on the Japanese leadership style in which humanism and the trust of workers with their superiors are decisive aspects. According to Professor William Ouchi, good relationships are key to productivity.

William Ouchi: Theory Z of Leadership

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In the book Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll&#039;s alter ego was &quot;The Dodo&quot;. This was due to the cartoon he created about his own stuttering when pronouncing his last name: &quot;Do-Do-Dodgson&quot;.

Lewis Carroll, the Life of the Creator of Alice In Wonderland

Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet. Due to his blindness, for a good part of his life, he had the help of his friends and family to continue his literary work.

Jorge Luis Borges: One of the Most Influential Writers of All Time

Through Antonio Tabucchi&#039;s phrases, one can tell how critical but serene his texts were. His statements were very humanistic and were intended to shed light on our current world. 

Seven Amazing Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi

Hans Christian Andersen, a writer who endured a lot of tragedy in his life, showed his readers through his quotes that it&#039;s possible to find happiness even in the darkest of times.

The Most Memorable Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Juan Rulfo is one the most acclaimed writers of his generation. Self-taught, ambitious, and, above all, one of the most mythologized Mexican authors.

Juan Rulfo: Biography of a Literary Genius

Herbert Spencer is the father of social Darwinism. Learn more about the life and work of this controversial author in this article!

Herbert Spencer: Biography and Work

One of the most renowned José Saramago&#039;s essays is “Blindness”, a literary piece that invites the reader to reflect on the human soul and on what&#039;s invisible to the eye.

José Saramago: Biography of the Nobel Prize-Winning Writer

Søren Kierkegaard&#039;s work is based on two basic dimensions that defined the essence of his life: love and faith.

Søren Kierkegaard: Biography of the Father of Existentialism

Many of Haruki Murakami&#039;s books have had the same success as J.K. Rowling&#039;s Harry Potter saga. His puzzling characters, his surreal worlds, and the delicacy of the emotions he transmits have captivated the world.

Haruki Murakami: Biography of a Best-Selling Japanese Writer

Byung-Chul Han&#039;s work encourages people to stand against unlimited productivity, digitalization, and consensual slavery. These are contemporary realities that, according to this philosopher, affect us.

Five Key Concepts of Byung-Chul Han's Work

Are you thinking about studying psychology? Today, we share a book that was written for those who like the subject but don&#039;t have a clear idea of what it is.

Letters to a Young Psychologist by Ignacio Solares

André Gide&#039;s work reveals how tender he was. Although his opinions on homosexuality and politics made him unpopular, he never stopped being optimistic.

The Best André Gide Quotes

In Charles Bukowski&#039;s quotes, you&#039;ll be able to see a poet who was hurt by the lack of meaning, authentic values, and honesty of contemporary society. He used his words to reject and complain about the world in which we live in.

Five Clever Charles Bukowski Quotes

Creativity and Bipolar Disorder: How Are They Related?

The Top 7 Leo Tolstoy Quotes