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The truth is that Social Work was not even an option for me. First of all, I wanted to study political science, but in my region, because I was 17 when I graduated from school.  This degree wasn't there, so I studied law. I didn't like it, so I froze and since I didn't know what to study, I entered social work in my region. The truth is that I fell in love with the profession in college, before I didn't know what it was all about.  I thought of Social Work as an alternative, while I was looking for my vocation, but finally I stayed. Finally, I switched to the "Universidad de Chile" because I liked its approach better, it is more critical than "Santo Tomás". Also, the atmosphere is nicer, and the professors are more understanding. I think what I like most is the active look of this social science, always focused on intervening in reality, even if you are doing research, the orientation is always towards action. I would like there to be more opportunit...

  My favorite movie since I was a child is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). I like this movie very much because I find it deep, very critical of psychiatry and the society of exclusion. But most of all, because I find it too beautiful, moving! It was directed by the late director Miloš Forman and focuses on the importance of human freedom; it denounces the mistreatment in insane asylums and the treatment towards "the insane".   I highly recommend this film, although it could also be criticized for being patriarchal, as the protagonists are all men. Anyway, it was a different era.      Anyway, I love this movie because it reminds me of Foucault or Cooper and their theories of madness, and the social control exercised under the concept of <<madness>>.   For, throughout the film, you see the asymmetry of power, between those who work in the institution and the patients, who are doped and treated as completely passive people....