Ciencia y pseudociencia en psicología y psiquiatría

Located at the precarious crossroads traced by the classic dichotomy that demarcates the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology and psychiatry (as well as the entire broad set of disciplines related to them) have been debated since their birth between the aspects more iron positivism and latent humanism that until now have coexisted in its midst in a tense balance. But today, well into the 21st century and following the impetus of the questioning that both philosophy and the 'psi' disciplines themselves have carried out of the traditional category of 'science', as well as the most recent disputes over the distinction between this and pseudoscience, psychology and psychiatry, rather than moving in the nebulous no-man's-land they have hitherto occupied, perhaps provide a privileged place from which to rethink the categories used to address the debate. Starting from the analysis of psychotherapy as a condensation point for all the inertias at stake, Marino Pérez Álvarez tries throughout these pages to help us reflect on the dangers that the concepts that have defined our understanding of knowledge and discomfort may entail. psychic, as well as the liberating possibilities that a new way could provide to consider our own conditions of existence.