Cristiana Facchinetti

Arquivos Brasileiros de Psiquiatria, Neurologia e Ciências Afins: uma fonte com muita história

Launched in 1905, the Arquivos Brasileiros de Psiquiatria, Neurologia e Ciencias Afins was the first Brazilian periodical specialized in psychiatry, neurology, and related sciences. In 1908, under the new name of Arquivos Brasileiros de Psiquiatria, Neurologia e Medicina Legal, it became the journal of the Society of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Forensic Medicine. Starting in 1919, it was published under the title Arquivos Brasileiros de Neuriatria e Psiquiatria. The periodical presents proposals put forward for this field in Brazil, under the leadership of Juliano Moreira, director of both the National Asylum and of Federal District Assistance for the Insane (Assistencia a Alienados do Distrito Federal). Because the journal published articles by healthcare providers from the National Asylum, it is a vital source for researchers of the eras diagnostic processes and clinical and therapeutic practices. This selection of texts was published in its pages between 1905 and 1930, the year Moreira retired.

As insanas do Hospício Nacional de Alienados (1900-1939)

Este trabalho e um dos resultados de pesquisa de pos-doutoramento realizada entre 2004 e 2006 na Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, com o apoio do CNPq e da Faperj, em que se buscou estabelecer uma cartografia das praticas psiquiatricas no Hospicio Nacional de Alienados. O projeto tinha por objetivo levantar dados e analisar os processos de construcao de diagnosticos, o tempo de internacao e suas correlacoes. Para tanto, foram considerados os criterios: origens etnicas e nacionais, atividades profissionais, genero, estado civil, idade, classe social, indice de mortalidade, origem geografica e autoria dos prontuarios. Neste texto restringimo-nos a relacao entre genero e loucura nas quatro primeiras decadas do seculo XX.

Entre a psicanálise e a degenerescência: sexualidade e doença mental no início do século XX no Brasil

The text by Henrique Roxo published in 1919 and presented here is based essentially on psychoanalytic theory, and discusses the core role of sexuality in cases of mental illness, particularly dementia praecox. Our article analyzes the relations established between psychoanalysis and psychiatry to indicate the unique method of constructing the mental as a scientific object in Brazil.

“Gentes provindas de outras terras” – ciência psiquiátrica, imigração e nação brasileira

Publicado en 1925, el texto de Juliano Moreira que ahora presentamos discute el problema de la inmigracion y su relacion con la constitucion mental de los brasilenos. Nuestro articulo analiza el contexto en que fue escrito dicho texto para demostrar las relaciones del proceso de consolidacion de la psiquiatria brasilena con el conjunto de ideas y practicas relativas a los destinos del pais.

The historiography of psychoanalysis in Brazil : the case of Rio de Janeiro

The objective of this article is to analyze the background of the historiography of psychoanalysis in Rio de Janeiro. Three different phases and approaches are analyzed, based on the viewpoints of different groups of authors. The first group features authors who displayed an early interest in the subject, in the 1920s-1930s. The second refers to psychiatrists/psychoanalysts who worked with mental health institutes and societies between the 1940s and 1970s, while the third perspective comes from the academic/university environment, from the end of the 70s to the present. This distinction was made not only to better define the timeframe of the arrival and dissemination of psychoanalysis in Rio de Janeiro, but also to provide a better understanding of the relation between the specific professional and intellectual interests of each group and the respective historical context.

Emil Kraepelin na ciência psiquiátrica do Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1933

The article addresses the penetration of German psychiatric science in early twentieth-century Brazil. More specifically, it explores how the theory and practices of Emil Kraepelin were absorbed by both Juliano Moreira, director of the National Hospital for the Insane (Hospicio Nacional de Alienados) and of the agency for Assistance to the Insane (Assistencia a Alienados) in the Federal District (Rio de Janeiro), and also by the circle of physicians with close ties to Moreira from 1903 to 1933. It discusses the ways in which Kraepelins work was adopted, taking into account the days medical-mental repertoire, the political and scientific context, and the controversies within the Brazilian psychiatric field. Lastly, the study analyzes these choices based on the prevailing relations between Brazilian and German psychiatry back then.

Combining psychiatry and spiritism: Therapies employed in a Brazilian sanatorium (1934–1948).

The purpose of this article is to present an historical account of an intersection that occurred in Brazil between popular healing treatments and conventional psychiatric practices during the first half of the 20th century. To illustrate our argument, we analyzed data retrieved from the medical records of patients admitted to the Spiritist Sanatorium of Uberaba, Brazil, between 1934 and 1948. Although the Uberaba Spiritist movement founded the institution, it was directed by a physician educated in the biomedical tradition at the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine. Based on the theory of the circulation and appropriation of knowledge, we elucidated the adaptations and negotiations that were necessary for the reception and dissemination of the practice of the two different therapeutic methodologies on Brazilian psychiatric soil.

Philippe Pinel e os primórdios da Medicina Mental

deve ser comemorada: trata-se deuma das pedras angulares da historia da psiquiatriamoderna, peca-chave da primeira revolucao psiquia-trica, i.e, da configuracao da loucura em doencamental. E de se perguntar, alias, como foi possivelprescindirmos de uma traducao integral da obra ateentao, ja que o tema da constituicao da psiquiatriano Brasil tem sido objeto de investigacoes em dife-rentes areas ha tres decadas, e a importância dePhilippe Pinel (1745-1826) para tanto e indubitavel.A cuidadosa traducao torna o convite a leitura des-sa obra ainda mais atraente, ampliando apossibilidade de utilizacao do

Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)

Abstract Psychoanalysis arrived in Brazil at the turn of the twentieth century and was frequently used as a new tool in the process of conservative modernization. As such, it was used by psychiatrists, eugenicists and hygienists in their projects. But avant-garde Brazilian writers appropriated it in a different manner. They saw psychoanalysis as a new form of cultural therapy that represented the new Brazilian ‘modernity’. The paper deals precisely with this project. With this aim in mind, it analyses several works of the leading authors of the Modernist Movement and their Manifestos, seeking to draw attention to the particular way in which psychoanalysis was appropriated as a psychotherapeutic tool capable of assisting in the creation of an identity for the country. For this analysis, the concept of circulation and of appropriation were chosen as theoretical reference.

A Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em História da Psicologia: o perfil dos investigadores

O artigo delineou o perfil dos membros da Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em Historia da Psicologia (RIPeHP). Optou-se por utilizar como metodo principal um questionario para obtencao das informacoes acerca dos membros. Alguns dados foram complementados por meio da Plataforma Lattes e do Portal de informacion de Ciencia y Tecnologia Argentino, bem como curriculos disponibilizados na Internet. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que os membros da RIPeHP tendem a ser pesquisadores com formacao em psicologia, com doutorado e pratica docente, nucleados na sua maioria em instituicoes localizadas nas cidades de Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota e Belo Horizonte