Abstract: Psychology in China is now undertaking a process of differentiation. Two obvious examples are:(1) Applied and humanistic psychology has become more independent from basic research psychology, and played a more important role in serving people and society in need; (2) a new evaluation criteria of psychological research and service achievements is required to break  the shackles of SCI exclusively. From the perspective of philosophy of science, human knowledge can be roughly divided into reliable (useful) knowledge and illusory knowledge (pseudo-science), and then the reliable knowledge can be further divided into scientific knowledge and nonscientific knowledge. Since its birth, psychology has been motivated by philosophy and science at the same time, which has been leading  the development of scientific psychology and applied and humanistic psychology, respectively. However, peoples understanding of psychology from the West is somewhat biased and incomplete, ignoring the existence of applied and humanistic psychology as a useful knowledge as well as scientific psychology. Scholars have long given all psychology a title of “science”, and evaluated all outcomes of psychology by  the SCI standard in the name of “science”. The differentiation of psychology in China, however is auspicious. It will promote the psychology of our country to break through the limits set by itself, and  psychology  greater room for development. Not only can it  provide psychological knowledge for exploring the unknown psychological world, but also  serve the practical needs of the people in  pursuit of a better life and social governance.

Key words: science and humanity, basic psychology, applied psychology, humanistic psychology, SCI evaluation, new criteria of breaking “Five Only Rules”