Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
Author/s Pietro Stampa
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/2
Language English Pages 27 P. 80-106 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rpc2-2025oa21810
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<p>The profession of psychology in Italy is undergoing a period of rapid expansion that simultaneously threatens its very nature as we have known it until quite recently. The main critical issues are: (1) the limited level of professional practice-oriented education provided by university programs; (2) the trivialization of the profession’s public image due to a consumerist use of social media; (3) the proliferation of pseudo-psychological support services offered by unqualified practitioners, such as counselors and coaches; (4) the challenge posed by online psychological counseling, which has opened the market to platforms with largely uncontrollable effects on new and unprecedented modes of service delivery; (5) the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to psychological services. These critical issues are examined from a historical, legal, and deontological perspective.</p>
Keywords: artificial intelligence;academic education;professional practice;public image
Pietro Stampa, Vanishing Point: Italian Psychologists between Today’s and Tomorrow’s Uncertainty in "RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA" 2/2025, pp 80-106, DOI: 10.3280/rpc2-2025oa21810