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Psychologies Pilar Varela
Column 63.
False psychologists
In our country there are more televisions than households, television is most common in Spain than tap water. An average English spend nearly half their leisure time watching television and for many that is the only teacher who teaches how is the world. However, models presented on TV are not the most desirable and this also affects the psychology in recent years has acquired a considerable media show the presence of psychologists in all chains.
In our field there is much professional intrusion, we have only to look around to see how there are many questionable qualifications psychologists, psychotherapists who ever passed through our faculties and schools of unknown origin. Psychology provides a prefix often used - "Psycho" - which gives an air of sophistication significant. It began with psychologists and psychosociologists and psicodiseñadores abound today, psicocreadores, psicopeluqueros. Behind each lies a bombastic title suspicion.
This troubled waters does not occur in engineering or architecture, or mechanical, is given in the field of mental health sciences, where intruders can move her into confusion involving lack of complexity, aware that people do not always know how to discriminate the wheat from the chaff. The problem is that confusing selling merchandise over daring and successful than the pros.
This troubled waters does not occur in engineering or architecture, or mechanical, is given in the field of mental health sciences, where intruders can move her into confusion involving lack of complexity, aware that people do not always know how to discriminate the wheat from the chaff. The problem is that confusing selling merchandise over daring and successful than the pros.
Science is cautious and has many reservations, pseudoscience, however, has no reservations or doubts, only certainties and quick fixes, and it sells more. In a television program can fascinate a charlatan, because no boundaries, knows everything, solve everything. The formula works: the scientific basis unless it exists, most foolproof remedies offered. Psychologists have prevention when it comes to sharing a microphone with one of these characters, because it is true what Kant said, "Do not ever argue with a fool because you do not notice the difference."
trivialize our discipline is a way to reach more people, but certainly not the most honest. The true professionals we must ensure respect for psychology. It is possible to formulate an attractive discourse while rigorous, but the latter should not be neglected ever towards the former. There is a risk that soon becomes much media saturation against us and the good work great psychologists is diluted in the magma of the cheeky and psicoaprovechados.
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