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The physical and emotional interactions established between ancestors and descendants have been reexamined in psychological science due to recent contributions offered by Evolutionary Psychology. This article reviews classic and contemporary theories of distinct philosophical backgrounds, which have tried to explain the factors implied in the genesis, development and function of the early interactions between children and their parents. A review of papers from distinct areas regarding attachment behavior and parental behavior, in its normal and pathogenic dynamics in the species homo, is presented. The psychopathology of the child's tie to the mother and its disruption through separation, deprivation and bereavement, especially puerperal depression, are analyzed, as well as the role that the paternal care assumes in this context, in order to provide the human infant with an ideal environment for optimal growth both psychologically and physiologically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last years have been marked by a disconstruction and reconstruction in the traditional ways of social and individual organization. The classic ideas regarding the future were substituted by ordinances for the end of "old" concepts as: the social-democracy, the welfare state, the end of history etc., making possible speculations besides on the end of the modernity. Though, some concepts stay current and request an analysis of his meaning. The objective of this paper is presents some considerations concerning the mass concepts and identity. For so much, we bring the author's contributions as: Ciampa, Bauman, Hall, Laclau, Negri & Hardt and Virno, that have been discussing, rebuilting and rethoughting these concepts. Finally, the text intends to present the possibility of work starting from the crowd concepts and identity as metamorphosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article debates empirically about the affectivity's paper in the organization of the human reasoning. The Thought Organization Models theory was utilized as the psychological foundation. It introduces part of some data of empiric research proveniences of a study of the Basic Psychology. In this research, they selected as sample 60 subjects of two schools in Campinas (São Paulo), asking them who answered to a conflictive situation in which a character asks R$10,00 to pay a mother's exam. The premise of the moral dilemma is then structured into two scenarios: the first is non-contextualized and the second is contextualized. In the noncontextualized scenario, there is no description whatsoever of the character involved in the dilemma. The contextualized scenario on the other hand, includes demonstrative affectionate descriptors both positive and negative in nature referent to the character. The third grade students responded to positive contextualized scenario and the second grade students to a negative contextualized scenario. After reading of the protocols, for discussion of the answers, were produced three analysis categories: the first corresponds help from subject to the character, the second that indicates the refusal in assist her third in which the subject does not know what to do and/or it has doubts. The data obtained substantiated that affection, found in the contextualized scenarios both negative and positive, favored the thought process of subjects, considerably modifying the manner in which it was organized in regards to the moral dilemma and to indicate a certain tendency in "if involve" with character's problem and searching thus avail her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Freud, the body assumes a new configuration and sexuality opens up a promising theoretical field of inquiry into the brain. When combined with the theory of self organizing systems, the Freudian concept of drive becomes a useful conceptual tool in Cognitive Science to study the human mind and cognition. This paper focuses on the contributions of the psychoanalytic knowledge and identifies the critical points, limits and possibilities of a potential interdisciplinary in the field of the philosophy of the mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legal Psychology is a specialty area arising from psychology as a science, in which traditional areas of education and action such Educational, Organizational and Clinic Psychology are compared. The very feature of this specialty is its interface with Law, the legal world, which produces epistemological and conceptual encounters and disagreements that intertwine the work of a legal psychologist. The sectors of Legal Psychology are many, since the most traditional ones such as those taking place in the Courts of Law and Prison up to innovating actions such as Mediation, Psychic Autopsy (retrospective evaluation by means of third-party information). This paper focuses on the Brazilian Legal Psychology, with the purpose of presenting and discussing the definition of Legal Psychology, its relationship with the Law, by highlighting its sectors of action according to the works presented in the 3rd Iberian American Congress of Legal Psychology held in 1999 in Brazil and it also intends to address the challenges faced today by the Brazilian Legal Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When bone marrow transplant (BMT) is added to the diagnosis of cancer, patients can experience fear, lack of understanding and insecurity. This project's aim was to identify aspects of the emotional status of 7 patients with bone marrow transplant indication. TAT cards 1 and 11 were applied in order to search for the latent aspects in the patients, and a semi-directed interview was then conducted. The use of a psychoanalytica qualitative and referencial methodology was chosen, with the estabilishment of categories encompassing the main aspects brought out in the interviews. TAT cards were analysed separately. It is noticed that fear and hope were a constant in the patient's reports, reinforcing the results from international papers. In conclusion, the pre-transplantation period is a moment of ambiguity and confusion, due to the emotional burden to which the patient is subjected. Thus, psychological counseling is fundamental to an adequate confrontation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the notion of discourse presented by Michel Foucault, this paper attempts to demonstrate the construction of aids through the medical discourse that began to designate the HIV virus as an ethiological agent, instead of coming from multicausal factors. It sought to evaluate the extension of such change in the nosographic categories that defined the concepts of risk group, risk behavior and vulnerability. The article sustains that the notion of risk group was responsible for the subjective and social representation of aids and for its changing into an epidemic. It pleads that the power of such representation was an impediment for the prevention campaigns' effectiveness, due to the particularities of the Brazilian culture. It concludes by pointing out that the present designation of aids as a controllable chronic infection can serve as a prevention strategy and also to the transdisciplinary researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A theoretical model, with the application derived from it, born in a specific moment of social organization, has to undergo modifications to maintain its efficacy when there are organizational changes. The present paper discusses the importance of diagnosis as an instrument for comprehension of potentiais of the individual situation. The brief psychoanalytic therapy can be extended to borderline patients, with careful consideration of theoretical and technical changes and evaluation of the efficacy of the new procedures. Puerperium can be classified as a period of crisis, although it leads to great changes and to a reorganization of the family group. This article presents some instances of the clinical psychologist's intervention in hospitals and health institutions in the following arros: neonatology, hospital psychiatric, heart transplant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is aimed to enlarge the discussion about both the indications and limitations of the brief psychodynamic psychotherapies as well as the possibilities in the technical management which are permitted by them. In order to establish the bases to discuss the psychic change mechanisms, the paper coments the meaning of the therapeutic process and the intended objectives in the psychotherapy. This discussion offers a broad view on the curative factors pointed out in different forms of brief psychodynamic psychotherapies, including both the more restrictives in their indications and the wider ones. The conclusion points out the importance on emphasizing the more suitable curative factors to the resources presented by both therapist and patient to achieve an attainable objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper was to study the psychodynamics of the Social Representations (RS) of obesity and the importance in the relaction between patient and endocrinologists from public hospitals. The interviews were carried on with ten endocrinology doctors from public medical institutions (five female and five male doctors) aged between twenty-eight and forty-four. Their specialization period ranged from two to eighteen years. The interviews were semi structured, in the sense that they had been given a minimal pre-structure, thus allowing the interviews to be spontaneous and express himself freely and easily. The techniques used were projective techniques, with general and wide-ranging questions. The theme, obesity, was expected to arise spontaneously during the course of the interview. The data handling based on the psychodynamic frames of reference, followed a qualitative approach. The study here presented leads to the conclusion that an individual doctor interprets the ideologies about obesity which circulate among people in our society. The doctor's behavior reflects his personality traits, his scientific knowledge, and the influence of mass media. The financial condiction reflets in clinical pratices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is a recension of the book Portraits of Pioneers in Developmental Psychology released in 2011 which has not been translated into Brazilian Portuguese yet. It is a collection of works in honor to some pioneers in the developmental psychology field. In its extension, the reader can find some personal and academic reports about 16 scholars in this area of knowledge, as well as their experiences and contributions to this field of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]