The professional work of the psychologist must be defined according to the concrete circumstances of the population that he or she must attend. The current situation of the peoples in Central America can be characterized as: (a) structural injustice, (b) the revolutionary wars or quasi-wars, and (c) the loss of national sovereignty. Even though the psychologist is not called to solve such problems, he or she must contribute, from his/her specificity, to look for an answer. Conscientización is proposed as the horizon of the psychologist's endeavor, which means to help people to overcome their alienated personal and social identity, by transforming the oppressive conditions of their context. To embrace conscientización as professional skyline does not necessarily require changing the field of work, but certainly the theoretical and practical approach from which one works. It assumes that the Central American psychologist relocates his or her knowledge and practice, adopting the standpoint of the popular majorities, and decides to follow them in their historical path towards liberation.
