The increase in interest for these careers led to UBA authorities discussing the possibility of creating new faculties dedicated to these disciplines.

In the following years, the military dictatorship that took over in the 1976 coup d'état would intervene the university and disencourage new applicants, leading the total number of new psychology students to plummet to 300.

The dictatorship was wary of the purported influences of Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis among psychology students, and disapproved of group practices and community work.

[4] The Faculty of Psychology's research center is the Instituto de Investigaciones en Psicología (IIP), created in 1992.

The faculty is headed by a Dean (Spanish: decana or decano), who presides over the Directive Council (Consejo Directivo).