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Art has always been an object of study and performance tool for Psychology professionals in Brazil. In order to increase the knowledge on this relationship, the present study aims to characterize as Art has been used by psychology professionals in the country. The method used was the bibliographical and exploratory research in databases on production of scientific papers on the use Art by Psychology in Brazil from 2004 to 2014. 318 abstracts from six categories of analysis of articles that had been analyzed were selected: year of publication, type of study, theoretical references, artistic expression type, field in Psychology and objective of the work. After the analysis it was concluded that, in Brazil, there is a predominance of theoretical and epistemological work in literary and visual arts, based on psychoanalytic theory, aimed at theoretical / conceptual expansion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the meanings of professional training and the process of insertion of psychologists who work in the Special Social Protection Service for Disabled people, Elderly and their Families (SEPREDI/SUAS). For this purpose, six professionals from three cities in Santa Catarina were interviewed. The information was obtained through in-depth interviews and analyzed from the meaning cores. The theoretical perspective was based on the dialogue between Socio-Historical Psychology and the feminist perspective of Disability Studies. The results indicated the need for initial and continuing training to prepare psychologists to deal with the complexity of the demands present in services such as SEPREDI. The dialogue of sociohistorical psychology with the field of disability studies with a feminist matrix was the theoretical perspective adopted, understanding disability as a transversal and political experience. The results analyzed from the meaning cores pointed to the need for initial and continuing education to prepare psychologists to deal with the complexity of the demands present in services such as SEPREDI. Furthermore, they indicate the importance of public examinations aimed at selecting professionals for SUAS being specific to this field of work. The relevance of an intersectional, intersectoral training that is attentive to the guarantee of human rights is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pregnancy in adolescence is a psychosocial phenomenon, whose understanding refers to the passage in the European continent of the feudal system for a capitalist, in the Modern Ages, when the concepts and senses of "adolescence" changed to new significations. Under Social Representation Theory (SRT)'s perspective, this paper proposes to analyze the Social Representation (SR) about the pregnancy in the adolescence present in Psychology Productions. It was conducted through the literature review of the national scientific productions. Across the search in the databases Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações (CAPES), BDTD, BVS e SciELO, were selected Productions of the Graduate Programs in Psychology, which has "pregnancy in the adolescence" like study topic under the SRT' perspective. The data were analyzed based on a qualitative approach, being used the technique' Category-based Content Analysis for organization the materials. Was organized four categories under the thematic class "SR about the pregnancy in the adolescence": pregnancy in the adolescence; social support network and public policies; contraceptive methods and condoms; and future perspective. The results evidenced contradictions in the social representations about pregnancy in adolescence when associated with the be adolescent and/or with the idealized pregnancy, as well as the influence of socioeconomic factors. It can be concluded that it is part of the ethical commitment of Psychology, understanding that pregnancy in adolescence is a psychosocial phenomenon that rises multiple social representations, this must be historically, socially, and economically contextualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on recent discussions about the definition of behavior and the selection by consequences approach conducted by Brazilian researchers, this essay discusses the need for greater participation of the contributions from experimental behavior analysis this debate and more interaction of the field with other systems in Psychology. The paper criticizes its isolation with respect to knowledge production in other areas and the adoption of authority figures from which novelties in the field can be evaluated. Hence, Skinner's model of selection by consequences must be analyzed in context for a clear understanding of its most important contributions to Psychology. The essay argues that discussions on the operant-responder distinction and about metacontingencies are examples of conceptual revision based on data and articulation between areas of research with different epistemologies and methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the psychoanalysis subjects taught in psychology programs in the state of Acre by the syllabus and bibliographies of the corresponding disciplines, available on the curricular pedagogical projects of the four existing programs. A descriptive and qualitative study was conducted based on documentary sources investigated by content analysis. The results indicated syllabuses that emphasize Freudian teachings and a preference for national publications. Lack of classes on psychoanalytic research and clinic beyond the classic model stands out amidst the identified gaps, calling for changes that may subsidize investigations and practices in the Amazon context, fomenting the development of this approach aiming at the formative journey that the Freudian discipline requires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Image, cinema and psychology - this article weaves a dialogue between these three extensive and complex topics to develop theoretical-conceptual approaches between art and science. From the cinematic art, some of its technical resources and concepts developed by this language, the article seeks to provide a bridge between the field of aesthetics and reflections on the process of subjectivation. The paper finds grounds on Deleuze's philosophy of image and time and Benjamin's understanding of the image as a substance shapes thought and time as an eternal instant that never ceases to update itself. Both theories are approached in a dialogical way to establish intersections with other cinema and cultural thinkers, as well as with some film works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychopharmacology is an important scientific field for psychologists' practice. Over the last years, in several countries, there has been given an increasing importance to psychopharmacological training for psychologists. The aim of this paper was to perform a study recurring to an exhaustive analysis of the curricula of all Portuguese Higher Education institutions that teach Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in psychology to verify which of them offer curricular units on psychopharmacology. For that purpose, data from Direção Geral do Ensino Superior (DGES) site and webpages from higher education institutions were collected during the month of July, 2021. The results indicate that training in psychopharmacology does exist, however, it is scarce. Within the 97 Bachelor and Master Degree courses in psychology analyzed, only 11 curricular units about psychopharmacology were identified. From those, three are taught at the same institution. Overall, these data suggest that the training in psychopharmacology given to psychology students is residual. At the end of the article, we discuss implications of these results for psychologists' training and potential consequences for the professional practice of Portuguese psychologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This systematic review aimed to identify scientific publications about psychologist's performance in the socio-educational context, from 2007 to 2018. Searches were carried out in the LILACS, PEPSIC and SCIELO databases, by using the descriptors "psychology" or "intervention" combined with "adolescent in conflict with the law", "infractional act" or "socio-educative measure". 242 papers were accessed and their abstracts were read to identify those that approached the subject, remaining 22 articles for the final review. Through the thematic content analysis of the materials, we created four categories: 1) Psychology techniques applied to the demands of socio-education; 2) Listening as the main tool; 3) Working with groups and 4) Art and Sports as dimensions of interest for psychology. Considering the data that were analyzed, it is understood that the psychologist's performance must essentially contribute to build new possibilities in adolescent's lives, respecting their singularities and understanding the peculiarities of their stories. It was also possible to observe that the existence of barriers to the development of effective socio-educational practices calls on the psychologist to expand the repertoire of practices that were traditionally consolidated, which demands to create devices that make sense for these adolescents, considering their contexts and the history of their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work we try to know the ways in which the portuguese science writing, mainly the national social science and psychological writing, appears in the biggest scientific databases of the world. To reach that aim we research the national scientific production using PorData; Scimago; Scopus; Web of Science and the Journal of Citation Report. We wanted to know the kind of scores use to evaluate the scientific impact; the authorships patterns; the paper's main themes; the presence of national scientific journal in the international arena. Finally, we wanted to identify other metrics that started to show up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophy of Science became an autonomous discipline in approximately 1922 giving rise to the Vienna Circle. The main purpose was to define precisely the concept of 'science' in order to be able to decide univocally which manifestations of human thought should be considered scientific and which others should be excluded to the plane of pseudoscience. With regard to psychology, North American behaviorism agreed with the basic stances of the Vienna Circle, giving a central value to experiments and controlled observations. In concern to Psychoanalysis, the Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge suggested that "[...] it is the most interesting and successful of the pseudosciences [...]" (Bunge & Ardila, 2002, p. 122), assuming a concept of traditional 'science' that is deeply embedded in the social imaginary of western culture. In Latin American faculties of Psychology certain social representations are constantly widespreading, probably inspired by the deficient traditional teaching of philosophy of science at high school and universities too. In this paper we will try to settle down the grounds to develop a philosophical-pedagogical project in order to achieve a superior proposal for the teaching of Philosophy of Science in the career of Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results from a qualitative phenomenological research that aimed to understand the experience of professionals who care for women in situation of violence in a Social Assistance Specialized Reference Center (CREAS). After individual dialogical encounters with two psychologists and four social workers, the researcher wrote a comprehensive narrative and a synthesis narrative containing the following significant elements of the experience as a whole: (1) the participants realize that some professionals that are part of the women's care network repeat prejudiced attitudes that contribute to the patients' victimization; (2) the participants do not see themselves as protagonists in the institution's decision making, which leads to feelings of frustration and powerlessness; (3) they develop empathic attitudes and identify with the stories lived by the patients and (4) they seek to assist the women, they feel lonely because of the lack of effective action by the women's care network; still, they value their own work. There is a need for interdisciplinary studies that integrate information about the experience of professionals, patients and authors of violence, in institutions of the care network for women in situation of violence -- in order to help overcome the problems pointed out and improve public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing is a form of expression that goes far beyond pencil and paper. Many artifacts and materials have been used by man over time to record our history. By means of a bibliographical study, the aim of this work was to present a new theory about childish drawing called the Dynamic and Aesthetic Perspective. This perspective divides the development of childish drawing into stages, in the same way as the classical theories, however, differs from them when it proposes that the expression of emotional states through the child's scribble is already possible at around 2-3 years of age, in the phase called expressive scribbling. The scribble is more than the gesture's consequence; it is not motivated solely by motor pleasure and seems to be able to express emotional states. The Dynamic and Aesthetic Perspective functionally integrates biological, psychological, and social aspects into the description of a fluid process in the evolution of the drawing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims, through a systematic literature review, at identifying and understanding the main themes in the Portuguese research in the prison context, identifying future research opportunities. The analysis of 41 papers allow the authors to identify 6 typologies of studies in this field, namely, empirical studies with adult samples, juvenile samples and prison staff, studies that work on the adaptation and validation of measures, intervention programs and theoretical papers. Thematically, the research with adult forensic populations, which represents 18 out of 41 papers, focuses on the psychopathology and personality disorders domains. The results allow the conclusion that psychological research in the prison context has focused in classic psychological themes, from the clinical domain, collecting data from inmates. The authors identify the use of multilevel approaches and research in the organizational, occupational, educational and human sexuality domains as opportunities for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes actions taken by a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, type II) in 2015, in a municipality of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We conducted a retrospective, descriptive-exploratory study based on secondary data source accessed by means of Tab for Windows (TabWin), which led to the conclusion that the CAPS is fully able to develop intersectoral, multidisciplinary actions that aim to promote mental health, prevent aggravation and support people to tackle crisis situations. We also highlight how essential studies are that provide discussions on how to increase the participation of users in the mental health sector and to promote participatory spaces in society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes actions taken by a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, type II) in 2015, in a municipality of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We conducted a retrospective, descriptive-exploratory study based on secondary data source accessed by means of Tab for Windows (TabWin), which led to the conclusion that the CAPS is fully able to develop intersectoral, multidisciplinary actions that aim to promote mental health, prevent aggravation and support people to tackle crisis situations. We also highlight how essential studies are that provide discussions on how to increase the participation of users in the mental health sector and to promote participatory spaces in society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The systematization of knowledge about individual's emotional aspects in amputation surgery situation is necessary, both for preparation and professional training of psychologists who act in the area and for the patients involved. This article aims at elaborating a literature review about emotional aspects in the life of patients submitted to limb amputation. The method was a literature review, prioritizing a retrospective character. The selection was based in indexers of scientific production (PePSIC, SciELO, LILACS), covering the period 2009-2014. As results, we found ten studies. There is a scarcity of publications about the theme; the majority of papers are in periodicals focused on Nursery; the studies do not include the family relations or relation doctorpatient; most of them treat about the emotional aspects of the patient during the period of postoperative. We conclude that the scarcity of works and the characteristics of those that already exist point to the necessity of new studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homeless people are one of the primary targets of assistance policies in Brazil because they are exposed to numerous vulnerabilities. Such a fact led to the creation of public policies and development of the Center service for homeless people. This paper aims to analyze the intervention research conducted in a Center for the Homeless Population. With such research, we seek to develop and implement intervention strategies related to theoretical contributions of psychology and psychoanalysis for homeless people. We describe and analyze activities such as drawing workshops and films developed to problematize subjective and social conditions of users from a Center for the Homeless Population. It is worth emphasizing the working importance for that population care in particular, and how the knowledge processes are intrinsic to meet changing opportunities in the lifestyles of these people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to evaluate, through theoretical and scientific papers, the benefits that Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) can provide to children who have some neurodevelopmental impairment. The benefits of human-animal contact has been known since antiquity, but studies around this area are starting to grow only currently. Therefore, we performed a critical review of the literature by analyzing the data collected using content analysis. The results showed the potential benefit of this type of intervention to children with social, cognitive and physical disabilities. The most commonly used animals were dogs and horses for treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities. Thus, there are possibility for psychologists and other professionals of health areas use or referee this kind of intervention to their patients. Still, we can conclude that there is a lack to more empirical studies using AAT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to explore how in his last book Bergson moves away from the meaning assigned to the condition of civilized and primitive both in the common sense and in the science of his time. I intend therefore to show that the philosopher is successful in deviating from the meanings thus crystalized by the language only if, wriggling from the strict circumscription of certain fields of knowledge, he dares to operate a methodological transgression which, beyond scientific objectivity, at the same time carries out an effort of introspection and contemplates the perspective more general of life. By doing so, there appears the notion of "fabling function" that comes to reveal an archaic dimension of the primitive which not only persists in the civilized but that ultimately turns into one of the elements that makes the survival of the species viable. Furthermore, it will be seen that, according to Bergson, attributes generally associated with the development of civilization and to the contemporary Western man are equally experienced by the so-called primitives or uncivilized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the academic production on the theme of race and theme developed at the Institute of Psychology at USP (IPUSP). Therefore, we analised theses and dissertations produced at IPUSP between 1970 and 2012 that made use of these categories to understand subjective, social, and political phenomena. Among other aspects, we found that the studies analyzed are divided mainly into three main areas, namely: denouncing racism, ways of subjectivation of racism, and strategies to overcome it. However, it is arguable that there are few studies that deal systematically with the deconstruction of racism, as well as with methodologies and techniques through which psychologists could contribute for the anti-racist struggle in Brazilian society. So to speak, there is still a gap in knowledge of psychology and race relations that should be looked deeper into by psychologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To present the Queer perspective is to act in a provocative and challenging way, especially when we, agents and professional psychologists who operate in the correctional environment, are transfixed by its impetuous and sagacious power. Transvestite bodies of subjects convicted in the prison system, who are stigmatized as wicked or obscene bodies by the other imprisoned bodies, and who are judged on the basis of their sensual pleasures. Transvestites in the correctional system appear as bodies that are already condemned and subject to the penalties of law. However, they find new ways to exist in a different context, which is ruled by the correctional institution, and provides different ways of feeling, thinking, wanting, acting and living. In this paper we present, in a critical way, discussions proposed under a Queer perspective, as described in various sources in the literature, providing opportunities for new questionings and debates about a differenceoriented vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the phenomenon of violence against women and prerogatives of the Maria da Penha Law (Law 11,340), this paper analyzed the methodologies of social intervention of the extension project "Education and Psychosocial Care for Men Authors of Spousal Violence" in Manaus / Amazonas. The project supported the Education and Offender Accountability Secretariat of State of Amazonas Justice, in partnership with the Federal University of Amazonas. The tour was named "Group of meaning in Construction". These methods were analyzed by Documental research with qualitative approach. The methodologies were considered innovative in the northern region in contemplating the sociocultural relations, using language as the main instrument of dialog and accountability, potentiating care of self and other in marital and present an alternative service. To analyze the effectiveness of methodologies favors the reflection of social practices and professional make considering the complexity and dynamics of psychosocial phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at investigating empirical researches on therapeutic riding published between 2004 and 2014. We seek to verify characteristics of the samples, psychological constructs assessed, assessment tools, and psychological effects attributed to the processing of therapeutic riding. We analyzed twenty empirical studies, the vast majority of them were held with children and adolescents, six studies were done with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The measurement techniques mostly used were: interviewing techniques; behavioral observation; questionnaires; quality of life scales; functionality scales and specific groups scales. The most obvious results of therapeutic riding in the psychological context involved decreased anxiety and gains in social relationship. Gains in cognitive aspects were not clear. Comparing Brazilian and international studies, we have a lack of control group and of reliable measurements in both cases, but Brazil, does not seem to have a psychology culture in use research based on evidence in therapeutic riding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychological assessment in the context of transit has been evident in Psychology in recent years amid the changes in legislation and questions about its validity. So can develop and achieve their goals it is necessary to understand trends and gaps concerning what has been researched in recent years. The present study compared published articles in the database Pepsic and Scielo and papers presented in the four editions of the Brazilian Conference of Psychological Assessment. From the keywords driver, psychological assessment, transit and drives, there were selected 22 articles and 38 papers at the congress, dated between 2000 and 2009. The results showed in general, an increased interest in the area. A larger number of papers at the congress was found, in order to verify that the most of research results do not reach effectively for publication. Among the studies reviewed, there is prevalence of empirical studies focused mainly on the investigation of personality and attention, using a large variety of instruments (n = 24), most are not specific to the context of traffic, and apply in their majority in driver's candidates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Family Health Strategy focuses on actions to promote health, developed by its professionals along with the community. In the immanence of this group we find lines that develop reflexive processes that can release the production of a creative know-how. In this sense, the inclusion of psychology in the Family Health Support Nucleus (NASF) can contribute to the fulfillment of an expanded clinic in primary health, critical to the so-called healthy models, mostly orthopedic and modeling, open to trials and worried about reconnecting clinic/politics/production of ways of life. In this paper we question some demands of Family Health teams addressed to the NASF psychologist, their production, ethical and political implications for clinical practice and resulting subjectivity processes. It sought to analyze and map discourses, possible dialogue and assemblages, whose expressions are translated as demands for health professionals. In many cases, these demands express moral considerations, idealized forms of health and well-being. We bet that the construction of the clinic is the product of a collective desire, able to withstand the mechanisms of capture and disciplining of life. This paper proposes that, starting from the daily challenges, the team will be able to discuss, question and become stronger enough to claim healthy ways, free of pre-established standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual study aims to narrate and describe the definitions of psychology facing theoretical and operational aspects. Based on the current scenario where there are disparate considerations on the concept of psychological science and the definition of human behavior, this paper will address to solve this condition regarding four different ways: academia, literature, free market and Neuropsychology. Then, Neuropsychology is presented as a way to resolve this ambiguous situation. Finally, this study claims that the criterion that should be used to evaluate if a particular area of knowledge, or a discipline, is part of psychological science lies in evidences, but never in rhetorical or imagery appeal. This work fosters not only the critical thinking, but also effective actions on the psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper talks about the complex process of adolescence in relation to the teaching and learning process in the contemporary world, under the scope of the intersection between the fields of Psychology and Computers in Education based on an experience developed at "Colégio Pedro II", a state school located in city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The interrelation between the two areas of knowledge- psychology and Computers in Education - has motivated the search for a way to stimulate the interest of young learners for formal knowledge, focusing on our reflection and observation on the school subject which has echoed our questioning - Music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on searching some of the strategies used in knowledge production based on the challenges and opportunities created by the Actor-Network Theory (ART) in the area of psychology research. As a starter, we have used a survey conducted by us, in which we cast a special look at the field of social projects such as the action territories that render materiality to the so-called Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Two aspects have proved to be quite rich: the idea of the Promising Misunderstanding (DESPRET, 1999) and the Mapping Controversies (Latour, 2005). We have concluded that the methodological an ontological power of these concepts that, on one hand, multiply voices and versions and on the other hand recognize provisionality, partiality and incompleteness of any updated diagnosis, it also compromises the researcher with what he/she "brings to exisencet" in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss some questions worked in the end-of-course monograph "Eu sou uma obra de arte, o museu é um mundo", which involved Helio Oiticica artistic proposal and the aproach of his work with an alternative way of thinking psychology: Actor-Network Theory (ANT). So we have a work which unites psychology and artes and discuss practices in psychology. Thus to support this discussion we work making a mess in the way of think and do psychology with the aport of ANT's authors dialoguing with Helio Oiticica. This discussion includes a lot of actors and compose a politic proposal different of dominating logic in psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the fundamentals and principles of classical phenomenology as a methodological approach for the study of cultural phenomena. This research is inscribed in the realm of qualitative research in psychology, therefore in the field of psychology of culture. However, in considering the general area of phenomenological studies in psychology, regular criticism of classical phenomenology is observed, questioning some methodological assumptions adopted by Husserl, referring primarily to the works published during his lifetime. Based on contemporary authors dedicated to the study of Husserl's later works and unpublished manuscripts, the debate around these criticisms is updated to innovate reflections on the empirical application of his phenomenology. As conclusion, some equivalences between phenomenological archeology of culture and genetic phenomenology confers the first methodological guidelines for the study of cultural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decades, many studies have pointed to the growing process of the ageing population. In Brazil, there is a prediction that by 2020 our country will have the sixth largest elderly population in the world. In several Brazilian cities, the number of inhabitants over 60 reaches significant levels. Given this phenomenon, several challenges exist for public policies, society and the university in the production of knowledge and new practices for intervention with this demand. Thus, this paper reports the experience of two group activities developed with the group "Ageing Processes and Subjectivity" at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus of Assis, coordinated by a faculty member and composed of twelve undergraduate apprentices in Psychology. The experience seeks to provide Psychology apprentices a training that will enable them to articulate the knowledge production with the construction of new strategies for professional work with the ageing population. Group activities are developed with the elderly, either institutionalized or not, and aim to promote intervention strategies that may produce the expansion of the subjectivity of the elderly, in order to combat the social isolation that many are submitted and also to promote (re)significations of the ageing process. To achieve this end, it is offered two different weekly activities, each one hour and a half long. One of them is the "Psychology Workshops with Senior nursing home residents", which includes the participation of about 30 individuals from two nursing homes in Assis (SP). In these workshops we develop sense and perception and activities of the expansion of mobility along with meetings that seek to foster memories and life stories of nursing home residents and activities that promote sociability among them, both within the campus and in the spaces of the city. The other group, "Encounters with the Third Age", is part of a project called University Opened to the Third Age (UnATI) of UNESP, Assis, which has about 50 participants aged over 60 years, mostly women. In this group, various topics related to ageing are discussed and its impact on the construction of subjectivity, such as gender, family, feelings and senses of the body and other processes. Our work with institutionalized old people, together with the academic purpose of creating knowledge while acting together with the external community, has led to the development of new tools of action in psychology beyond the traditional medical model. Moreover, these group experiences have also been seen as a strategic place in order to question the logic of invalidating the ageing person perceived on the social scene as well as among the elderly themselves. We observed that, when stimulated, they rediscover their capacity to reflect, criticize and ponder on various subjects, and may produce subjective processes more potentiated in their contact with others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers of recent history use different information sources to rebuild the past. Through oral history methodology, they can even produce the documents they will analyze. This paper presents three studies in which the authors applied the oral history methodology to three different subjects: 1) the acknowledgement of one Brazilian psychologist's importance, 2) the perception of the work accomplished by employees in childhood education institutions and 3) the reframing of a Holocaust survivor's experience by his descendants. Focusing on people in their own social and cultural contexts, each work produced a historical writing that valorizes different aspects of culture and interpersonal relationships and recognizes that each person is the subject of a historical process. These studies point to the capability of the oral history methodology to valorize the memory of the interviewed people and also as a way to create documents that may help to build the present and future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The psychoanalyst's work at the Health Institution is done by articulating the clinic with the theory. It is the psychoanalyst's responsibility the transmission of knowledge that is built there, since the psychoanalyst is interested in a theory of clinical practice, especially because that clinic occurs at the institution, and it produces consequences in both: clinic and institution. This paper presents and discusses the notion of insertion of the analyst in the health team as a process, not as a fact. We assume that to enter in a team in a health institution is not the same as to be inserted in it. We define insertion as a construction process of the place where the psychoanalyst can operate, reminding that this place is not given beforehand. It is the continued formation that allows him to support such construction, by articulating his discourse with other different discourses at the different ethical references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The School Psychology Emergency Practices differs from others School Psychology practices, is more than type of psychology service and should have more institutional visibility. This paper reflects on these references from both the practice of the author and the currently literature in school psychology. To this purpose, we use as reference the concept of Extended Clinic and its relation with Psychology Emergency Service area. We discuss the opportunity of the school psychologist has, among other things, to be able to listen and to welcome spontaneously anyone in the school community seeking for support in case of emergency. In so doing, the author reflects on the condition of psychological emergency service as service and as a type of treatment at school, and school psychology as an area of expertise inserted in this complex environment different of views and perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of some of the German expressionist films produced in the early twentieth century enables us point to the existence of common and recurring themes such as the voluntary submission of individuals, the mass manipulation by leaders, the split personality, and the double. Although such issues seem to refer, at first, only to the characters' psychological disorders, Sigfried Kracauer seeks to demonstrate the relationship between the topics covered in expressionist films and Germany's social reality in the postwar period. In this perspective, the aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between aspects of the individual psychic reality, especially alienation, mental alienation, and estrangement produced by social reality. It puts together the strange (Das Unheimliche) discussed by Freud, the concept of estrangement (Entfremdung) by Marx, and the effect of estrangement in art (Verfremdungseffekt) by Bertolt Brecht, discussed by Herbert Marcuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the emergence of linguistics as modern science at the beginning of the twentieth century, developed a concept very clear about the need to establish linguistics as an autonomous science in the general framework of the social sciences. Not by chance the motto of the First Congress of Linguists, held in The Hague in 1928, was "the autonomy of linguistics" (Jakobson, 1970, p. 12). However, the autonomy of linguistics as a science not isolated from other areas of knowledge. Despite the fundamental role that language plays within the social sciences, one must admit other ways of seeing the linguistic phenomenon and seek to interpret them in terms of interdisciplinary complementarity. In this paper, we try to present some considerations about the contributions to the study of language, theorizing about the functions of language formulated during the mid-twentieth century, both in the area of structural linguistics, drawing on contributions from Roman Jakobson, as in psychology, focusing on studies of Lev Vygotsky. The goal is not to make comparisons and relationships between the theories themselves, but show parallel conceptions that analyze the functions of language recognizing the importance of each of the authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aimed to identify sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of population who look for enuresis treatment in a university care center for this disorder and to identify the most used familiar coping strategies facing the episodes of "wet" in cases of primary nocturnal enuresis. Descriptive analyses of medical files were performed from 185 children (6-11 years old) and 55 adolescents (12-18 years old), from both sexes, screened between 2004 and 2009, whose extracted information were: sociodemographic and clinical data as well as family coping strategies. High frequency of "wet night" over six weekly was identified in children and adolescents (70.6% and 50%). There was a male (67.9%) prevalence of a child population (77.1%) from middle-class families. When the family looked for previous treatment, medication treatment proved to be the priority among children (28.7%) and adolescents (47.1%). More frequent strategies facing enuretic episodes for minimizing damage and preventing bed wetness in both age groups were: using diapers or protective mattress and waking the child to go to the bathroom. Punishment was declared by only 15.4% of parents of children and 17.3% of adolescents. The data showed that the low incidence of disadvantaged families in the service constitutes a challenge since the philosophy of the service is attending all economic tracks, and the burden brought by enuresis seems to push families into searching for alternatives to solve the problem when the first response to clinical treatment is not satisfactory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The regulation of Graduate Programs in Brazil is less than five decades old. Along this period, the system has been successful concerning its results, even though some of its essential features remain unfinished. In the field of Psychology, the system comprises 64 Programs and 42 of them offer Doctoral degrees. In order to efficiently cope the demands of the Brazilian Graduate System, the Psychology area will need to face challenges, some of which we highlight in this paper. They are: (a) the enlargement of geographical and thematic scope in order to overcome regional asymmetries and thematic gaps in psychological research; (b) the improvement of the evaluation system in order to comprise the diverse strategies in instructing new researchers and the knowledge production in every subarea of Psychology; (c) the necessity of a link among different areas of Graduate Programs in Psychology since the basis for knowledge production in this field may have additional demands related to the development of intervention technologies; and (d) the elaboration of policies which may qualify the system, improving the research networks, providing international exchange for the groups, promoting scientific publications, and extensive methodological learning, for instance. The diagnosis of these and other challenges, in their multiple dimensions, may lead to a more efficient use of the potentials of Brazilian research groups, towards the development of knowledge production and training new researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present and analyze the reformist movement in economic modeling that serves to better predict patterns of choice over time. Based on a vast literature shedding light on the mutual gains of exchange between economists and psychologists, we argue that behavioral models that replace the constant (exponential) discounting with that of hyperbolic (nonconstant) time preference discounting contribute to a better understanding of various intertemporal choice anomalies and eventually pave the way for the explanatory (and predictive) progress of contemporary economic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is characterized by severe and persistent pattern of hyperactivity and/or inattention, which is harmful. The correct assessment may be influenced by comorbidity and difficult of characterization. This paper evaluated the contribution of psychologist and psychiatrists on a correct avaliation and treatment elaboration. Ten psychologist and eight psychiatrists take part on semi-structured interview. The analysis was descriptive and qualitative. After comparing them we found that the psychologies and psychiatries of this sample contribute to the diagnostic in their specific ways and that the junctions of knowledge throw interdisciplinary work allows a better disorder comprehension and the development of a more efficient intervention plan. [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]

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]