Psychology
Dean: Prof. Alessandro Antonietti
Università Cattolica's Psychology programme has a long history that began with the pioneering experiences of Father Agostino Gemelli, founder of the University, who with his Psychology Laboratory, launched at the beginning of the last century, contributed decisively to the progress of Italian psychology.
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 this faculty of ours: the extraordinary collaboration between scholars and between different fields of knowledge, which has led to work on a wide-ranging and long-term project, of which students have been and still are the true protagonists
The Psychology Laboratory (1924), the School of Specialization in Work Psychology (1955), the Institute of Psychology (1958), the School of Specialization 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 system of Specialization Schools qualifying for psychotherapy (2020) are the important results of this path.
The Faculty of Psychology, founded in 1999, has quickly gained a top position in the academic world and in quality assessment rankings, ranking internationally among the top one hundred and fifty universities in the world and fourth in Italy (source: QS World University Ranking, 2024) and nationally steadily above the average of the Italian educational offer in psychology (sources: Academic Evaluation Team Università Cattolica and Alma Laurea).
In tune with its own history and committed to re-actualizing its values 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 theoretical and methodological orientations present in the discipline;
- interested in the application and intervention perspectives that psychological knowledge can support.
The Faculty, in the light of the establishment of the Qualifying Degree in Psychology, has carried out a review of all the proposed study paths with the aim of rereading the wealth of experience gained so far in the perspective of the scientific, cultural and professional scenarios that will characterize the development of psychology in the coming years.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to collaborate for the progress 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