The beginnings of the child psychiatry and its reflexes in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Abrão, Jorge Luís Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• DOI: 10.35699/1676-1669.2020.14698
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/14698
• topic: Psiquiatria infantil; História; Brasil; Child Psychiatry; History; Brazil

Child Psychiatry is a very recent branch of medical specialty forged between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Brazil this discipline developed from the middle of the twentieth century initially linked to Pediatrics and Psychoanalysis. Thus, this article aims to demonstrate the constitution of Child Psychiatry, from a historical point of view, and its reflexes in Brazil. To this end, the frameworks that delimited the discoveries and conceptual expansions that constituted Child Psychiatry during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were analyzed. Afterwards, we present the most relevant events that determine the emergence of child psychiatry in Brazil, to finally point out that this discipline was directly influenced by Education, Pediatrics and Psychoanalysis during its constitution process in the country, an influence that  lasted until the early 1980s.