Abstract

FREITAS, Joanneliese de Lucas et al. Body and psychology: a review of the Brazilian scientific production in the first decade of the 2000s. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.1, pp. 66-86. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2015V21N1P66.

This study aims to construct an overview of the scientific literature about the body in Brazilian Psychology during the last decade. One hundred and twenty-six articles were selected from the databases Pepsic and Scielo searched with the descriptors "body" and "embodiment" published between 2000 and 2009, in Portuguese. These articles were grouped into five groups for analysis, as follows: (1) only mentions or discusses "body" or "embodiment", (2) study areas, (3) basic theories, (4) methodology, and (5) conceptions of the body. One can notice that the decade was marked by a strong growth in publications. The area that has published the most was "clinic" and the theory was the "psychoanalysis". Theoretical studies predominate over empirical and there is a significant incidence of multidisciplinary studies. The issue arises as a complex, strongly questioned by Psychology. The analysis also points to a conceptual dispersion of the problem and a need to move on empirical studies

Keywords : Corporeality; Paradigm; Psychology.

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