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Clarifications homophobic activities undertaken in the School of Psychology at the University of Seville

I nternet is an inexhaustible source of information, as well as hoaxes and false information. In the previous post I referred to my college entrance the black list of English universities to promote pseudoscientific activities. Although in this case the charge was more serious because the alleged activities organized at my school had a clear homophobic component.

The fact that most of the faculty of the School of Psychology, Sevilla have shown over time a clear stance to defend sexual diversity makes accusations of homophobia directed at our colleague and dean, and by extension all our heart, are particularly insulting, and require clarification.

then reproduce the text drafted by Antonio Aguilera, dean of the School of Psychology University of Seville.

STATEMENT BY DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, ANTONIO JIMENEZ AGUILERA ON THE SPREAD IN YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH THE TITLE "heal homosexuality."

Last November 18 was held in the Aula de Grados, a conference entitled: "Reasons for hope: liberation movements of the poor." It was the fourth conference of a cycle under the title "XXII Conference with the Poor of the Earth" organized by the Christian Cultural Movement in collaboration with the Religious Support Service, University of Sevilla (Sarus).
Once initiated the conference, go the Aula de Grados a group of people who claimed to belong to LGBT saying he was offended because one of the organizers of the event distributed a book entitled "Understanding and Healing Homosexuality." I was as an audience at that conference and, given my dean, I was forced to invite them to leave the room so he could continue the act. Once outside I had a verbal exchange with LGBT members was recorded for these and certain scenes were selected to be edited and posted on the Internet. The content of this video has sparked a lively debate that forces me to point out the following facts:
On the conference:
a) The content of the above conference had absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality, referring to the description contents of various interventions empowering experiences of liberation movements in poor countries.
b) That neither I nor the Department of Psychology have any responsibility in organizing events for the "XXII week with the Poor of the Earth." These have been organized by the Movement Sarus and Christian worship. So widespread has the posters for the call for them.
c) As we all know, the management of common areas each year under one of the powers share the building, and throughout 2010 is the Faculty of Philosophy responsible for the management of these spaces.
d) That all the posters announcing the event was provided by the organizers, limiting this deanery to announce, at the request of the same in the two TV screens we have available in the lobby and on the door study room of the library.
e) Each of the four conferences have been held conferences in as many campuses on which the dean does not have power.
On the video:
In the video posted on the Internet is given a dialog in which I participate and that it follows from my alleged homophobia what I say in this dialogue, especially in my references to the DSM-V and the need for the therapist to take into account his client's request without prejudice that the only possible intervention is that of help take his alleged homosexuality.
As for the content of my words, as shown in the video, I can understand that you can play offensive, which was far from my intention and I regret deeply that this occurred.
However, in order to clarify my personal position, I wanted to convey the idea that is not contrary to my position open and respectful relationship with all conditions of human diversity, including those related to their sexuality. It is known my personal and professional position has always been to assume the cost of defending these positions resulted.
Beyond these circumstances I want to express my opposition to the irresponsible manipulation of which is under the university community that I represent, pointing out that:
a) Since I have responsibilities in the management of the School of Psychology, have contributed the extent of my ability, to make this center a place where all social groups can find a place for discussion and dissemination of activities related rigorous promotion of democratic values.
b) To the extent that matched me, I have avoided sectarian and dogmatic positions on any issue related to human welfare. To this end I have found in the freedom of expression and the responsibility and trust of colleagues, students and social partners, the best partner for this ability to become a center open to human diversity.
c) For the purpose of the controversial book, this option has no record of its distribution on its premises or have any responsibility for their content. In any case regret and reject it, abusing the trust, any group can spread or have spread content that is discriminatory, including homophobia.
d) is proud to have personal and scientific contributed to the extent of my responsibilities to strengthen the presence of the Faculty of Psychology through research groups, their educational projects and spaces for participation of the university community, in the defense of human diversity. In fact, our faculty is now known for its leadership in the scientific analysis undertaken with respect for the rights of all people regardless of their different characteristics.
e) It is my duty to defend the university community that I represent irresponsible attacks convey to society a distorted picture of the scientific community, what weakens us as such but above all, it weakens society. This is particularly so when these attacks come from groups that flying the flag of equality, tolerance and protection of the disadvantaged.
f) Finally, I invite the entire scientific community and social groups involved to discuss and disseminate the work we are doing in defense of human diversity and, specifically, of human sexual diversity, in an open forum that I undertake to promote in the near future. Seville
November 29, 2010 Signed


.: Antonio Aguilera Jiménez
Dean of the Faculty of Psychology UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE

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Y to're on the list. I refer to the University of Seville and the list of English universities offering courses or activities related to pseudoscience such as astrology, spiritualism and homeopathy. Http://listadelaverguenza.blogspot.com/ .

The reason you have not taken to obtain that prize is the distribution in the Faculty of Psychology "book" Richard Cohen, a quite freaky that has spent years spreading his therapy aimed at homosexual individuals return to the sacred path of heterosexuality.

is well known that homosexuality was removed from the DSM-IV in 1973 and no longer considered a disease and that most psychological problems associated with this sexual orientation are due to the homophobic prejudices that have had much presence in our society. Combat these prejudices is the primary means to normalize the lives of those who are attracted to persons of the same sex. In contrast, re-pathologizing homosexuality is the most direct way to promote homophobic prejudice and, therefore, increase the exclusion and suffering of this "invisible minority."

I understand the serious and scientific debate is essential to the advancement and consolidation of a science as fragile as psychology, so I provide an opportunity Cohen and look on the net some references on their scientific work. Well, the thing is not easy, nothing here, nothing there. But I find a link to the book that outlines the foundations of his wonderful therapy, so I decide to take a look.

Index already promised, but its content is authentic hard drug. The writer proves to be endowed with a good sense of humor and a rather pessimistic view on the intellectual level of potential readers of his book. The text includes some references that aim to give it a serious, clear that most of these quotes are a bit stale, even one of them is a publication that has not gone through the usual channel of any scientific publication, the peer review. See if this example:

" The fact that Jared's father was prohibited from expressing their anger also was another major influence. When Jared's father was young, he was not permitted to express their anger at home. In Thus, his son sent an unknown part of his character, the angry child repressed "(Exodus 34, 7).

Indeed, the Old Testament is an irrefutable source of unquestionable scientific rigor. And is that the author later says " God has given us all the ability to heal and completely recover anytime ". The truth is that it does not seem acceptable that a psychotherapist charge its patients if the work is going to do another, and I suppose the ethical committee of our professional association would have something to say about it.

But references to the healing power of the Supreme Being are not there to sample some other gems:

" the person in recovery needs to heal your mind, your heart, body and spirit. You need to have real intimacy with oneself, with God, others and Creation. "

" a true and lasting healing to take place when the love of God to manifest and experience through of the people. "

course the proposed therapy is not the exclusive concern of God, also can help in healing from down here :

"You have to do enough exercise, sports and entertainment, and eating a proper diet . It may be useful to weight training with the help of a trained therapist. "

Well, last I read this very reassuring, because I think some of my gay friends are in the right direction, and they love the gym and weight training with qualified trainers. However, I have not noticed any indication that they are becoming heterosexual but rather the opposite. Every time you see them more happy and satisfied with their "deviance."

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Leo in the Country Weekly article on the work of David Barker, a British epidemiologist who found a significant relationship between low birth weight one hand, and hypertension, cardiovascular disease and some forms of diabetes in adulthood, on the other side. I had read about this finding in Matt Ridley's book "What makes us human," and although at that I spend time in an entry time passed without being put to it so now I find a great opportunity to pay my debt.

Barker prenatally to a sort of primer on the baby who is prepared to adapt to the world we will live. Thus, if a woman is stressed and has insufficient food during pregnancy, the fetus plays through the mother to wait a context of life stress and food shortages and reprograms your metabolism to adapt to this difficult world. For example, the baby develops a resistance to insulin which facilitates the accumulation of fat in times of need. What was not foreseen is that in childhood would not have such a lack of calories but on the contrary, a world with excess sweets and pastries, so that baby born with low birth weight show a clear tendency to gain weight throughout his life, and hence the increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The child was born with the wrong program.

These data reveal how genetic programs are not fully closed, and are likely to be influenced by the contexts of development during the fetal period and also during the first years of life. This flexibility makes sense to ensure a better adaptation to a world that is constantly changing. Another example of how this can be reversed early reprogramming is found in relation to the type of attachment established between the infant and a caregiver in early childhood. As we have told elsewhere (see here ), although newborns are genetically programmed to bond with their caregivers, develop a type of bond or another type of care received from them. Thus, the link may be safe, unsafe or insecure avoidant ambivalent.

Although normally secure attachment can have a clear evolutionary advantage, in less favorable situations of insecure attachments can be displayed above. This would apply to children born in difficult and very limited resources in which parents may pay little attention to their offspring. In these contexts of developing self-reliance displayed by the avoidant children would ensure their survival, so this type of attachment would have an important adaptive value. However, as was the case with infants studied by Barker, in most cases these high-stress family situations and conflicts would not be a reflection of a world of shortages, but a specific situation because it would not be continued along of life of these children. Therefore, we could also say that these babies had been programmed to live in the wrong conditions, and its "tools" socio-emotional not be best suited to interact with peers, to mate and raise their children in a less-than-expected deficit.

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R ecojo in a bookstore a free copy of Mercury magazine, which often offer interesting articles and reviews about the outlook for the current literature. In this case my interest is higher because it includes a monograph on the task of educating. When I open the magazine hoping to find opinions on the subject by some experts on the subject I was surprised that the article that opens the monograph is provided by Antonio Muñoz Molina, undoubtedly one of our best contemporary writers, but whose relationship with the educational world is for me unknown. After reading my puzzlement is even greater, as their views on education are not very different from that of my local newsagent, but better expressed, of course. That is, a series of trite clichés and outrageous attack on our country's teachers that reflect a profound misunderstanding of the educational world. Given my admiration for the author of Sefarad, this article leaves me quite misplaced I wonder how can the same person as analysis of different levels of depth. The answer could be found in postpiagetianos studies that have shown that the content of a particular issue or problem and our familiarity with it clearly influence the quality of our thinking about it and its resolution.

The main justification for their attacks on the group of professionals in science education seems to be the responsibility Muñoz ascribed to them in many of the changes in legislation occurred in Spain. The misinformation of the novelist is important if we consider that the main positions in the Ministry of Education when it introduced the LOGSE were made by professors of physics (Pérez Rubalcaba), or evolutionary psychology and education (Alvaro Marchesi, Cesar Coll, Jesus Palacios). This widespread discrediting of an entire professional group seems rather the result of personal issues for me unknown, and a mistaken attribution of responsibility. Or is what is riskier attack the educational psychology and its professionals?

I continue to read the monograph and my astonishment increases, as the following article is an interview with the juvenile judge Emilio Calatayud. In this case already knew some of his views on education in the family and school, so I can not say I produce surprise. This excellent judge takes several years to spread their ideas through different media and based on their experience with a highly skewed population, so the generalization from it is the least risky. It is not surprising that this experience will lead to the conclusion that the main problem of today's youth is an excess of permissiveness, making rescue calls for the authority figures at family and school. Well, I say I do not have some truth, but I also think that the analysis of the educational made by the judge is pretty simplistic, and that our youth need something different to hand back hard. Calatayud is within your rights to express their views in the media, what is worrying is that much more authoritative voices have fewer opportunities to do so, and we should acknowledge that the judge's show is very popular media: topics and simple ideas expressed with grace and accessible language.

The opinion of another author, Ricardo Moreno, is not very different from Muñoz Molina, although in this case is an education professional. Moreno reflection revolves around a view that he attributes to "eminent educationists" means that should not be educating students to be uncritical and obedient, and that he misrepresented and manipulated by equating the critical intelligence, which must surely be an important goal of education, with disobedience and disrespect for authority. It appears that Professor Moreno is stopped the clock at times Summerhill, since no current educational trend that I know, rejects the importance of promoting values \u200b\u200band respect for the rules. From there, Moreno's entire argument falls under its own weight, clearly reaching conventional levels according to the moral development proposal made by Lawrence Kohlberg .

Next article by José Antonio Marina, is more sensible and informed, and could not be otherwise if we consider that this is an intellectual who has spent years delving into the intricacies of educational matters. As a counterpoint to previous authors, Marina said "a teaching book is a treatise on the transfiguration of human reality." However, one begins to tire of reading always the same opinionated, which is that Marina is omnipresent.

's reflection Justo Serna, below, is more literary, and from the example of the experience of the protagonist of "The Mirror of the Sea" by Joseph Conrad stresses the importance of parents and educators as figures to set an example to young people about how to navigate the turns and unpredictable waters of today's world.

Finally I am surprised that the article closes the monograph is provided by Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron, and I fear the same thing happens to me I happened to read the reflection of Muñoz Molina: that I fall a myth. Well none of that, as this prestigious historian of science, is certainly a much stronger intellectual to rave so much, and simply sets out the educational ideas of Bertrand Russell. Ron Sanchez probably has had to recall the proverb contains some interesting hints and tips about the wisdom in the field of opinion on matters that do not know well, such as "shoemaker to your shoes" or "Loose lips sink ships."
Surely in this country we would be better if everyone is dedicated to what really is good at.

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Mother at age 10 on Sanchez

l E recent pregnancy and subsequent birth of a girl of 10 years (see here ) is surprising and shows the advance of puberty has occurred in last decades in most European countries, and around two years. The best conditions of life, but also the influence of certain pollutants on the endocrine system may be responsible for this development. Several studies have found a link between precocious puberty and the use of pesticides in intensive farming and hormones in food and raising livestock. On the other hand, some childhood experiences, especially having to do with the kind of emotional bond established with parents, can influence the physiological mechanisms involved in the onset of puberty. From this point of view, precocious puberty may be determined by family stress, depression, divorce, family reconstitution, more common in Western society today that lead to the establishment of links of insecure attachment.

The earlier onset of pubertal changes have their influence on emotional and behavioral aspects. On the one hand, we meet children who still show a significant and psychological immaturity, however, have an advanced physical maturity, circumstances, several studies have considered an important risk factor for psychological and behavioral adjustment of adolescents , especially for girls. Therefore, many behaviors that until recently were those of youth and adolescents are becoming common in late childhood: Relations Home partner, consumer behavior, technology use, etc.

Although greater involvement in risky behaviors may be due in part to the fact that these children relate to other older, we now know that there are some brain mechanisms involved as decision-making depends largely on balance between two brain circuits or systems: the mesolimbic reward, which leads to the pursuit of pleasurable experiences, and the prefrontal cortex, which helps us plan our actions, calculate the risks and inhibit behavior deemed inappropriate. As explained here , precocious puberty promotes the imbalance between these brain systems placing the adolescent boy or girl in a situation of greater vulnerability that will lead to more impulsive and thoughtless behavior.

Therefore, for this young mother warning us about some of the risks these early puberties can bring partners, and makes more necessary than ever to carry out preventive policies aimed not only to adolescents, but to children and prepubertal girls. This prevention should include a real sex education, which can not remain pending in most English schools.

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