Some problems of the Psychology and proposals of solution

Abstract

Psychology is a young science that still has many different problems to overcome. Throughout the article we analyze four aspects related to the discipline that can help us identify some of these problems: the coexistence of multiple psychologies and the lack of agreement on their object of study, the overfragmentation of the discipline in increasingly more small areas, the lack of differentiation between “popular psychology” and “scientific psychology” and the confusion caused among students, professionals and laymen, the difficulty to know the training and expertise of a professional and job precariousness in the professional field of psychology, with almost 96% of temporary contracts and 12,695 unemployed at the end of 2017. Finally, some initiatives and guidelines are proposed to improve the situation, where both universities, teachers, students, researchers and clinicians, and schools professionals must be active agents so that this situation can change towards a better future of Psychology.