Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This article describes some of the author’s experiences as a psychologist, upon reaching 50 years of practice, between 1961 and 2011. It is a personal and critical review of the evolution of psychology as a science and profession during the last 50 years in Chile, and the main challenges for psychologists in the future. At the beginning, psychology in Chile ranged from an applied pragmatic psychometric position to a clinical, psychoanalytic, and behaviorist orientation. This defined the corpus of his generation’s training. Afterward, new psychological trends appeared internationally, such as neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology and community psychology. At this time psychology in Chile was also affected by a new epistemological perspective of science.
Source: Psykhe (Santiago)
Author: Luis Bravo Valdivieso
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Language: Spanish
Subfield: General Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2001190972