Abstract

FACCHINETTI, Cristiana. History of Psychotherapies and Psychoanalysis in Brazil: the case of Rio de Janeiro. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.spe, pp. 1106-1117. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article proposes to present the psychotherapeutic practices used by the Brazilian psychiatry in the Hospício Nacional de Alienados, a psychiatric institution located in Rio de Janeiro and founded in the year 1852. The research focused on articles, books and medical manuals of the Hospital Nacional de Alienados and professors of the chair of Psychiatry and Mental Disorders of the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro. As a theoretical reference, the article is based on Chartier (1990) to indicate that, when circulating in Brazil in the early twentieth century, different psychotherapies had to be accommodated to the context to be able to circulate. In particular, it is shown how psychoanalysis was appropriated and negotiated according to the repertoires available in the local psychiatric context, as well as to the various individual and professional interests present, having to adapt to gain credibility and acceptance in the Brazilian mental medicine environment of the first half of the twentieth century. Only in the late 1950s would it be constituted as an independent and autonomous discipline against the other psychological knowledge with which it had to blend throughout the century.

Keywords : History; Psychotherapies; Labor therapy; Psychoanalysis; Brazil.

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