Abstract
This paper provides an overview on the history of the earliest applications of psychological practices in the two main mental institutions linked to the Assistance for Psychopaths in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the beginning of the 20th Century. This encompassed a range of clinical practices that employed psychological techniques and tools thought as having a curative effect on the causes or symptoms of mental illness. Mental hygiene doctors used those techniques as well, with the biopolitical goal of averting illness and any consequent risk and social danger. The techniques are analyzed in their relation to the modernization project of Brazilian nation and to the problem of what was then understood as its “degenerated population”. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the role of Psychology in Brazil in the early 20th Century. The results appoint an effective interrelation between the raise of scientific legitimacy of Psychological knowledge and technology and the integration of Psychiatry within different nation's modernization projects.
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This paper provides an overview on the history of the earliest applications of psychological practices in the two main mental institutions linked to the Assistance for Psychopaths in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the beginning of the 20th Century
This paper provides an overview on the history of the earliest applications of psychological practices in Brazil
These encompass a range of practices in the health care for the mentally ill that employed psychological techniques and tools with the intent of having a curative effect on the causes or symptoms of mental illness, by eliminating or inhibiting the pathological impulses stemming from an individual’s condition (Shamdasani, 2005)
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0728-8700. Email: ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview on the history of the earliest applications of psychological practices in the two main mental institutions linked to the Assistance for Psychopaths in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the beginning of the 20th Century. The text takes up the debate developed elsewhere (Facchinetti & Muñoz, 2013) as to emphasize the lack of legitimacy Alienism faced in the end of 19th century when confronted to the new scientific parameters of the biomedical sciences It underlines how the demands for scientificity led Brazilian Mental Medicine to push aside French psychogenic theories in favor of German organicist Psychiatry. Dr Juliano Moreira became the HNA director, a post he held until 1930
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