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Arte e Psicologia em Vergílio Ferreira

2018; Issue: 38 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/21832242/litcomp38v1

2183-2242

Adriana Freire Nogueira, Rui Diniz Monteiro,

Psychology and Mental Health

In this article, we select the thoughts that Vergílio Ferreira had about Psychology, especially in his essay work, with a particular focus, but not exclusively, in his first book of essays, from 1957, Do Mundo Original.From his critical view on this science, we will try to reveal how, some decades later, the third wave of behavioral and cognitive therapies make similar criticisms and try to respond to these.Finally, we will also try to show the multiple points of contact between some of those therapies