Le doctorat : un impératif pour les psychologues Français et Européens

In France, as in the European Union, the number of psychologists continues to increase and constitutes by far the most important source of professionals in this field. The requests for services of psychologist in many various domains have also increased in an unprecedented way for a number of years. In spite of this development, which should continue to increase considerably, the initial training of psychologists remains uneven and disparate and often remote from, even unsuitable to, the legitimate expectations of users. It is therefore important to reform this training by extending, updating, homogenising and adapting it to current knowledge and needs and by marking it by a single and precise degree: that of a doctorate. This reform, which is socially and humanly greatly necessary must obvious also be accompanied by an indispensable and important revision of the criteria for the selection and competence of those who will deliver this renewed training (the current criteria in use to recruit psychology teachers have been widely contested and deemed to be, justifibly so, the main cause of shortcomings of the initial training of psychologists and of their professional segmentation).