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Abstract

We estimated the updating of the bibliography included in the course programs of the Psychology degree curriculum at an Argentine university. By “updating”, we mean both the non‑obsolescence of the bibliography and the incorporation of recent approaches to the mind that challenge the cognitivist paradigm. Although there has been a growing increase in scientific publications on these approaches and their incorporation into psychology textbooks in English, this trend is not reflected in the Spanish-language psychology texts. To assess this, we selected a sample of 102 books in four categories: general psychology, social psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. We set the 1990s as the starting point for our searches and conducted a keywords search associated with these approaches. We quantified the frequency of these keywords and compared them by language. In a second stage, we analyzed the course programs of an Argentine university, which we took as a reference and possible predictor of the general situation in the country’s universities. We found poor incorporation of these approaches and outdated bibliography according to bibliometric indicators. We interpret this as an indication of a lack of scientific updating in the training of psychologists.