Abstract

MENDONCA, Diego do Nascimento  and  HOLANDA, Adriano Furtado. Nilton Campos and Brazilian Psychology: A Biographical and Bibliographic Rescue. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 786-804. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61069.

This paper focuses on the study of life and work of Nilton Quadros Campos (1898-1963). Through the rescue of parts of the brazilian psychiatrist's bibliographic legacy, along with journalistic articles and other documentary sources, we aim to build a biographical narrative that will enable an understanding of his professional career, with later exposure of some of main ideas defended in his work. As he was devoted to the experimental work of Laboratory of the Colony of Psychopaths of Engenho de Dentro and to teaching activities, the concerns of the brazilian psychiatrist for the fundamentals of psychology grew, especially in regards to particularities of psychological phenomena. This philosophical position explains the direction that he sought to direct to psychology nationally. Campos defended the autonomy of the psychological object in relation to the natural sciences, but he understood that new discipline had no imminent need for curriculum emancipation, since it should be primarily as a theoretical foundation for professional practices. We hope, in this way, to be able to elucidate the way of understanding psychological science by an important psychiatrist of the 20th century, thus contributing to the construction of the memory of Brazilian psychology.

Keywords : Nilton Campos; history of psychology; psychiatry; epistemology.

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