Tracking the origins of the clinical method: following Piaget from Neuchâtel to Paris

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, André Elias Morelli
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Leonardo Lemos de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/15830
• topic: história da psicologia - século XX; Piaget, Jean William Fritz, 1896-1980; provas piagetianas; History of Psychology - XXth Century; Piaget, Jean William Fritz, 1896-1980; Piagetian tasks

Piaget’s clinical method emerged as a new way to conduct experimental research with children in the study of intelligence. To investigate its origins, a historical rescue was conducted from Piaget’s adolescence, going through his days in Zurich until his days in Salpêtrière, aiming to rescue the multiple conditions of the production of the Piagetian method, by confronting biographical, bibliographic, autobiographical data and primary sources. In the end, a model of understanding on how Piaget produced his methodology is proposed, based on three complementary hypotheses: The contact with the Burt’s test, the Piagetian methodology of research in malacology, and the French psychiatric method. The conclusion is that the method is not effectively tributary to any single model, but constitutes the assimilation of ideas and accommodation of practices, which brings the origin of the method closer to the Theory of Equilibration, placing the clinical method as a kind of intellectual autobiography.