Abstract

RODRIGUES, Anderson de Brito. Psychology history in Goias. Temas psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.17, n.1, pp. 135-150. ISSN 1413-389X.

This paper aimed to problem the psychological understandings, practices and discourses that contributed to the building of psychology in Goiás. For reaching this objective we tried to comprehend the bases of psychology in Brazil during colonial and imperial ages, as well as the developing process of this science inside areas as Medicine and Education. This work also allowed comprehending that psychology, throughout its history in Goiás, has been related to Medicine and Education. It can be said that psychological knowledge was essential on the diffusion of a new conception of education, child, and society; conceptions that went along with the human being model idealized by Goiás society and culture modernization projects.

Keywords : Psychology History in Goiás; Psychology and education relation; Teachers' formation.

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