[Latin American psychology: a two-way start].

Abstract

Two main trends can be found in psychological historiography, both streaming from discipline: on one hand the Central-European trend, phenomenological and dealing with inner life, and on the other, the Anglo-American trend, empirical and pragmatic. Latin America has reflected this cultural phenomenon in an extreme shadeless manner which had a clear influence in undergraduate schools. Modern psychology tendencies, however, don't allow the continuity of such a state of matters, and this has begun to reflect in the academic atmosphere of the region.