From witch doctors to psychologists Psychology as Science: Reality, illusion or challenge?

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Carlos R. Seijas

Abstract

Today it is common to hear about psychology, something unusual not more than a hundred years ago. There is talk of the psychological point of view of any social phenomenon, individual, political, economic and even physical, chemical, let alone a doctor, with the sentence from the psychological point of view ... Now it seems impossible to address issues such as personality , attitudes, motivation, among others, without referring to said branch of knowledge. The level of conformity that society has taken with regard to the role of psychology and the psychologist as a professional has reached such a point that it has not been initially questioned whether its theoretical foundation is really scientific and, therefore, whether the The work carried out by experts in this specialty is that of a scientist.

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SeijasC. (2020). From witch doctors to psychologists Psychology as Science: Reality, illusion or challenge?. Acta Académica, 31(Noviembre), 97-103. Retrieved from http://201.196.25.14/index.php/actas/article/view/627
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