The Psychotherapy: Beyond Psychology
It is common for the psychologist to be homologated with the psychotherapist, as if the psychotherapeutic practice, which we can define as psychic treatment (Freud, 1890/1998, p. 115; see also Ávila, 1994; Ramírez, Lopera, Zuluaga, Ramírez, Henao and Carmona, 2015), was one of the modalities of application of psychology. Psychotherapy is then taken as just another occupational field of the psychologist, along with work in fields such as organizational, legal, educational, sports, social-community, etc. However, psychotherapeutic practice involves a dimension that is beyond psychology and demands another type of training, different from the one the psychologist undertakes to obtain his professional degree.
