Some uses of Psychology in the Brazilian Army from 1930 to 1960: the courses

• Main Author: Jacó-Vilela, Ana Maria
• Publication Date: 2019
• Other Authors: Oliveira, Dayse de Marie, Lins, Thais Lohana, Anjos, Maíra de Souza Cerqueira dos
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Download full: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/6896
• topic: história da psicologia; psicologia militar; psicologia aplicada; history of psychology; military psychology; applied psychology

This article aims to understand the presence of Psychology within the Brazilian Army from 1930 to 1960, with emphasis on the psychology courses that were taught in the army during these decades. For such purpose, the research was based on the historical methodology, pursuing to use, mostly, the primary sources found in archives and specialized libraries, most of them within the Army itself. In those sources, we were able to observe that psychology was a current subject during all the period, in variable ways. At first, we found references to the experimental psychology. Then, for a long period, the main interest was in the psychotechnical field. Finally, after World War II, social psychology is established, which is justified afterwards, mainly, by the study of the matter of leadership. It is, therefore, observed that the trajectory of psychology in the Army follows its history in Brazil.