My favourite subject

This year my favourite subject is the CFG that I take called "The cinema as art". Until now we have had 4 modules: The first one was about "experimental films" that was very boring...because the teacher just talked from his chear with a microphone very slowly...but almost he show us some experimental films as "Un chien andalou"(Boñuel). The second module was "Films and Literature". It was fine, but while the teacher (a new one, younger than the first one) was talking, he mention many things that he suppoused that we know (as french or german names, artist, etc). And the worst thing was that the data-show had something wrong, so we couldn't see anything. Fortunately, the third module was just amazing! "Films and theatre". The tirth teacher, a proffesor of theatre theory in the University of Chile, was very interesting, dinamic, and also he brought his son that studied "cinema" to compare both diciplines. We saw a movie called "Richard, the third" of Al Pacino. The last module that we have had is "Films, music and soundtracks". The teacher was funny, dinamic also and very motivated.
Well, I know that it doesn't have any relation with psychology, but thats why I like it, because it's something different that I learn every week.

My future

What will I do or be in five years more? What a difficult question! Because of i´m steel very young and I´m in my first year of Psychology...
Professionaly, I would like to pass all my subjects without repeat anyone, I would like to have more clear my line of work and projectation, and to feel that I took the right career (it doesn´t mean to think "oh! this is my dreamed career". It´s mean to feel that I enjoy my work and that I can live doing this every day...To fell confortable).
Personally, I would like to have a group of good friend, those with wich you can count when you are in trouble or when you need to talk. I think that that´s a very important think because in despite of all the problems you may have (economic problems, troubles in you family or at work), if you have good friends is easier to cope with every problem. It´s a kind of second family. And I would like to meet someone to share my life and feelings (yeah, a boyfriend), to share your ordinary life, hobbies and inclinations.
I hope to be living out of home in a little flat here in Santiago or, why not, out of this country.

I don't know if hi's the best in my field, but almost is a very important character in the Psychology's world. Of course, I'm talking about Sigmund Freud, a German doctor that was interested about how mental conditions (psychological states) affect physicaly to the persons. Taking his and others knowledge (from literature, from medical studies, from philosofy...) he started to build the "psychoanalysis theorie". This theorie is based onthe idea that inside every human there are pulses of "creation and love"and pulses of "destruction and death". These pulses are fighting all the time and create tensions that are expresed in some hide expressions like dreams, verbal mistakes and violente reactions.
His idea was very revolutionary in his times because everybody thought that we had a very strong control of ours mental processes and their contained. But nobody suspected that there were hide contents and feelings such as traumas.
He also apport with a new way of healing the persosns: "The healing throw speaking". He realised that if you talk about your problem or if you try to verbalized your traumas or hide thougths, in some way your physical problems (as hysteria) heal.
Now a days is a very popular character, not just in psychology, also in literature, cinema, in medicine and other areas.
I think that he was very openminded and creative. An hyphotesis to explain his geniousity is that he used drugs (it was common between doctors to have drugs and use them) and that they help him to create all his theories.
Well, without Freud we wouldn't be (as occidental culture) the society and the culture that are today. And I wouldn't been studing psychology! hahaha

My Career

I'm not sure of why I choose this career: Psychology. Maybe because as many people says is a way to answer yourself your doubts about human things like preocupations, feelings, emotions and personality.
There are many ways to contribute to society as a psychologist, for example, working with individual persons , with groups and with entire comunities, by helpping to resolve problems. An individual problem could be deppresion or anxiety and a colective problem could be tensions between workers or family's fightings.
My favourite subject is...until now "Psychology" because as I am in first year, is the only one subject directly related with my interests (the others are complementary as antropology, methodology, Chile's Social History...).
I'm interested in Clinical Psychology, but who says that maybe I change my mind. I would like to study for a few months at Spain or anywhere outside of chile, to learn new things that are not include in the program of this university.
In the future I would like to help other people as my psychologist helps me some years ago. Maybe that experience motivated my interest in psychology, and gave me the idea to study this career.

A photograph that I like

A photo that I like is one that apeared in the Rolling Stone just after Jhon Lenon's death. He's naked hugging Yoko Ono in a white bed (I suppose that is a bed, maybe is just the floor) and Yoko Ono is wearing black clothes.
The photo was taken by Annie Leibovitz, an important photographer that worked with famous people, but the important think was her particular point of view, a little artistical and very spontanious. In a documentary, many celebrities said that when Annie was arround with her camera, she wasn't impertinent and make people feel confortable. She was able to open people's inside and share them to the world. This quality was an important key to understand her photos.
The curious thing about this particular photo is that it was took a few hours before Jhon Lenons' murder. It was in his appartmen or in a hotel (I'm not sure).
I like this photo because is so...simple. I appreciate the photo for the content, I just look two people that realy care each other and in a very natural way they look for the warm of the othe, I don't like it because of Jhon Lenon (in fact, I don't listen to the Beatles).

My new psychology favourite website

I heard many times about http://www.apa.org/ but I didn't visit that web, until now. Is a very complete website for any psycology student or worker, because it contains lots of updated researches, information by cathegories, news, issues, investigations, links and many other things. I think that in the future I will use this page to university works and to satisfy my own hunger of knowledge.
The first time that I try to found something interesting in this page, I found an article about "Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language". It explain some differenses beetwen "lesbian" or "gay" and "homosexual". Many people use those words like synonymous, but they mean or unless represent different thigs. Here is the link if you want to learn more: http://www.apastyle.org/sexuality.html

Me and butters

Hi, I'm Camila Canovas. I live in Chile whit my mother and my dad. I have a brother, but he lives near his university (my home is a bit far from his university).
I use my free time cooking sweet things like pies, cookies, fruit desserts and other thing, I play my piano wich is white (I playing classical music) and I see my favourite TV programs.
I would like to learn english because I think that if you know english, many doors will be open for me. In any country people speack english, and many scientific papers and investigations are written only in english. I will permet me to travel to eny place and feel confidence of my self to be able to make me understand.