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ACTIVO
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PASIVO
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ACTIVO
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1. mortifero
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5. devaluador
6. castrante
7. perseguidor
8. engaador
1. vital
1. vitalizante
2. protegido
2. protector
3. estructurado
3. estructurante
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and classes.
Culture even affects brain structure. Animal sounds and human
voices are localized in the verbal hemisphere of Japanese brains, but
in the nonverbal hemisphere ofWestern brains
Social class predicts
domestic violence, educational achievement, linguistic development,
parent
child interactions, mental illness, and IQ better than personal factors.
Gender and social class predict eating disorders better than personal,
psychological attributes do.
Culture is a system in which
our products produce us, we are made by what we make, and human
objectifications
objectify consciousness in particular ways.
Macro cultural psychology is unique in recognizing that psychology is
a
cultural mechanism. It is a mechanismfor culture in the sense that it
makes
activities culturalthat is, planned, coordinated, communicated,
learned, motivated, conscious, and changeable. Psychology is also
amechanism
of culture in the sense of being a culturally organized habitus that
resides inside the individuals body and mind, and regulates behavior
in
accordance with the parameters of macro cultural factors.
Accordingly,
psychology has a cultural basis, telos, form, and function.
Individual psychology cannot explain why free-choice marriages exist,
why they displaced arranged marriages, why schools exist, why
informal
apprenticeship was replaced by formal education, or why selling cars
and
real estate replaced barter or distribution according to need as in
hunting
and gathering societies.
INTERCULTURALRELATIONSHIPBETWEENTERAPISTANDPATIENT
Knowledgeofculturalfactorsandskillindealingwiththemwithinthepsychotherapeutic
processareoftennecessaryforasuccessfultreatmentoutcome.Theconductofculturally
appropriateandrelevantpsychotherapycanbequitechallenging,however,particularlysince
culturalissuesareoftenmystifying,misinterpreted,orevenunrecognized.
Cultureconsistsofpatterns,explicitandimplicit,ofandforbehavioracquiredandtransmitted
by symbols, constituting the distinctive achieve ment of human groups, including their
embodimentsinartifacts;theessentialcoreofcultureconsistsoftraditionalideasandespecially
theirattachedvalues;culturesystemsmay,ontheonehand,beconsideredasproductsofaction,
ontheotherasconditioningelementsoffurtheraction.(p.181)