Psychology
The Words of the Future: Mind, Relationship, Wellbeing
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Our Faculty is the result of the decantation of a very long tradition: it is an incredible heritage, which is the idea of a broad culture based on a multiplicity of disciplines, from medicine to philosophy, which allows us to ask the right questions of knowledge. This is the generative miracle of our faculty: the extraordinary collaboration between scholars and between different fields of knowledge, which has led to work on a project with a broad scope and a long perspective, of which students have been and still are the true protagonists
The Laboratory of Psychology (1924), the Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Occupational Psychology (1955), the Institute of Psychology (1958), the Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Psychology (1964), the Department of Psychology (1983), the Degree Programme in Psychology (1993), the Agostino Gemelli Graduate School of Psychology - ASAG (2001), the Doctoral School in Psychology (2004).
The Faculty of Psychology represents a significant development within this path: founded in 1999, it has quickly gained a top position in the academic world and in the quality assessment rankings, ranking internationally among the top one hundred and fifty universities in the world and third in Italy (source: QS World University Ranking, 2020) and nationally steadily above the average of the Italian educational offer in psychology (sources: Academic Assessment Team Università Cattolica and Alma Laurea, 2017-2019).
In tune with its own history and committed to bringing its values up to date in the present, the Faculty adopts and promotes a vision of psychology:
- attentive to the person and to the contexts of life;
- anchored in the progress of the most qualified and up-to-date scientific research at international level;
- open to dialogue with other reference sciences;
- pluralist with respect to the schools and the technical methodological orientations present in the discipline;
- interested in the application and intervention perspectives that psychological knowledge can support.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to collaborate for the advancement of the sciences and to follow the methodology required by each of them, must never put in second place what requires the recognition of its primacy, that is, man, the human person, the world of spirituality