On questioning, crisis and criticism in Psychology

Abstract

From its very beginning Psychology has been highly questioned and/or in open crisis. To explain this fact the present essay invokes some underlying structural factors, such as its position between biological and anthroposocial sciences and its internal multiplicity. Some historical factors are also argued: its low level of self-criticism, its submission to excessive academic and editorial constraints, and its distortion due to divulgation aims through books, even bestsellers, addressed to the general public.