A invasão da pseudociência na psicoterapia e as implicações psicológicas de práticas não regulamentadas

Abstract

The world has gone through transformations where new pseudoscientific proposals of treatment and action in knowledge and practices, and also in the conduct of psychotherapists, have emerged. These practices can be defined as a set of seductive beliefs with the promise of a quick, cheap and effective treatment; however, they do not have scientific bases, compromising the quality of the performance and the results. This work shows the path of Psychology as a scientific field. Where it proposes the questioning of why Psychology has lost its space for these practices that are not regulated and what may be the consequences that these practices can bring in the treatment of the individual, since they are not recognized by Psychology, which is the science that studies the behavioral and subjective phenomena of the human being, and that has its techniques regulated. Bringing hypotheses such as the reason for the search for pseudoscientific techniques is to have access to a treatment, fast and cheap, aiming at an immediate result, and in the same sense, he thinks about how this inadequate management can have consequences. The research, which has the methodology of bibliographic review, has objectives such as highlighting the place of Psychology as a science; investigate the invasion of pseudoscience, and how it has been taking the place of the practical and theoretical field of Psychology; understand what consequences these pseudoscience practices can have on treatment. Therefore, Psychology needs to position itself as a science, taking back its place of practices and performances that are based on scientific knowledge, having rigid sieves and techniques to be applied.