Clinical Psychology: Chosen Topics | Biomedgrid

The theory without practice is pure verbalism; practice without mere empiricism theory Father Felix Varela Mr. Juan Donaldo Quintilian Mendoza, assistant professor of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Havana, is the author of the book Clinical Psychology: selected topics, published by the Scientific-Technical Editorial. In that text, written with professionalism and love of the science of the spirit, the also head of the Department of Psychology of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana Cdte. Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz, ventures into the most dissimilar fields of Clinical Psychology, whose exercise has been delivered in body, mind and soul, because, like the priest Félix Varela, José Martí and Don Enrique José Varona, founding fathers of Cuban psychology, perceives our noble profession as a nutritious source of ethics, culture, humanism and spirituality. With support in the principle defended by Humanist Psychology that man is an indivisible bio-psycho-socio-cultural and spiritual unit, Professor Quintana Mendoza dissects - with sharp scalpel - each and every one of the basic components on which structure the human personality, as well as the internal and external factors that influence it ... and enrich or disturb it. Indispensable requirement to know the person's intimate essence and also the psychogenic or organic character of the conditions he suffers when the bio-psychosocio- cultural and spiritual balance in which health is sustained is altered, defined not as the absence of physical illness or mental, but as a state of psychological, social and spiritual well-being, which characterizes those who live in peace and harmony with their self, with the other and with the natural environment where they carry out their daily activities.