Abstract

ARAUJO, João Henrique Queiroz de  and  JACO-VILELA, Ana Maria. Heitor Péres and the Integral Praxitherapy at the Colônia Juliano Moreira. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp. 373-392. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.50840.

In this article, a historiographical study is performed about the psychiatrist Heitor Péres, who, among other functions assumed in the public service, directed the Colonia Juliano Moreira between 1946 and 1956. The research had as main interest to investigate the contributions of this character to praxitherapy, or the use of therapeutic occupations within psychiatric care. Heitor Péres was a great promoter and disseminator of what he called integral praxitherapy, in addition to art therapy. His professional career helps to understand the place of these practices in the psychiatric medicine field in Rio de Janeiro. The conclusions of this study suggest the parallel use of organicist theories and treatment methods based on therapeutic occupations in his professional practice. The trajectory of Heitor Péres helps to problematize the history of Brazilian psychiatry of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as to demystify the idea that praxitherapy was perceived in this context as a method of treatment inferior to those based on organicism.

Keywords : Heitor Péres; Colonia Juliano Moreira; praxitherapy; art therapy.

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