ABSTRACT
After World War II, psychology grew as a profession, sometimes at odds with the parallel attempt to establish psychology as a science. These two streams have tended to diverge, and professionalism has developed to the point that academics, unless registered, cannot call themselves psychologists. That includes me. One of the consequences of neglecting science was the misunderstanding of the science of memory that led, in the 1980s and 1990s, to individuals being falsely convicted of sexual abuse, based on unreliable witnesses.
