Año 4, No. 1. Enero-Junio (2022)

The present research starts from the premise that cin-ema is a source of great interest for the analysis of the image of the psychology professional over time. The way in which cinema has represented the psychologist is, consequently, of enormous importance as a genera-tor and transmitter of filmic stereotypes. Two are, there-fore, the objectives pursued: to analyze the representa-tion of the psychologist in the cinema from 1930 to the present and to establish, based on the above, the basic stereotypes of the psychologist in the cinema that have actively intervened in the construction of models of rep-resentation of our discipline. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology of thematic analysis has been followed, selecting a repre-sentative sample and describing and analyzing themat-ic aspects such as the scenario, the evolution of the psy-chological schools represented, the staged techniques, the psychological branches present, or the social image that emerges from all this through a categorization of the filmic stereotyping. The results show an increasing evolution over the time studied of the number of valid films, their relationship with certain film genres (hor-ror, crime and forensic), the extraordinary link between filmic stereotyping and clinical psychology, the constant ambiguity with other disciplines which shows the diffi-culties of the scientific autonomy of psychology, or the concordance of our results with the studies of Sneider and Gabbard with a preference for the “Wonderful” type of stereotyping. In short, it is considered that the cine-ma, until a few years ago, has been making a stereotype of the psychology professional that has distorted our professional performance. This implies a necessary ef-fort in our profession for scientific communication.