Are psychologists/psychology keeping up on the research?

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And are they using research in other fields that affect it like neuro-biology, neuro-linguistics. It seems like the field has to keep up on nearly every other discipline to be viable. That seems to be true of every discipline now with all the discoveries.

That's right on target, to my mind. All the new research is coming so fast and it all helps, but the best and most important is the intuitive. The whole world has to reverse their thinking and the intuition is usually out of step with convention. Einstein said that "If an idea doesn't sound wrong at first, there's no hope for it."

Answer 1

Some psychologists do keep up with the 'research' in other areas, some don't even keep up with the research in their own area. I was a 'practicing psychologist' who used 'eclectic' therapy (not a particular type of therapy, but from all the different types as necessary) ... but I had two 'counseling' specialties and also was a 'researcher' and an 'administrative pyschologist' (I set up counseling services and 'oversaw' them until they were 'running properly') and I didn't have much time to 'read all the research' or to 'try it out' to see how 'good' it was (or 'bad' since not everything 'works' as well as the research may seem to show). If a 'Freudian' therapy works best, why should I have to 'read all of the new research' when I have a client who NEEDS HELP IMMEDIATELY? Psychologists are NOT 'medical doctors' ... perhaps it would be best if Psychiatrists read 'all the research' and let the psychologists handle the majority of cases. I used 'good sense' more than any other thing in my 'therapy' ... and I was 'one of the best' at what I did ... and I still give 'really good advice' based on that 'good sense' ... except in many cases that 'good sense' means telling someone to do 'exactly the opposite' of what SOUNDS BEST ... and that is what makes being a psychologist so much FUN ... I 'know' and the client 'doesn't know' ... but it does 'help.'

Answer 2

YOUR question is a bit more
vague then you realize.

Those with doctoral degrees and
those studying for their terminal
degree, are required by their
university, to research and publish; so, multiply all the Ph.Ds in
those fields and you have an idea
about the amount of new research
being conducted world wide on
neuro and other similar fields.

I also write on the business side
of these things as a professor of business.

thanks for asking