A licenciatura na regulamentação da formação de psicólogos no Brasil: um estudo a partir da legislação e do caso do curso de Psicologia da UFMG

Abstract

This historiographical thesis had as an objective to analyze the insertion of the modality Licentiate in Psychology in the regulation of the formation and the profession in 1962. Starting with the methodological references of the History of Psychology, the research was divided in two stages: in the first, aside from conducting a literature review to identify the course proposals to train psychologists in Brazil before the regulation of the profession, we used as a methodological procedure the documentary analysis of primary sources located on the website of the Federal Chamber of Deputies, namely: the dossier of PL 3825/58, which describes the process of regulation of Psychology training and profession, as well as articles and news published in the journals Boletim de Psicologia, Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicotécnica e Revista Psicologia Normal e Patológica. The second stage of the research consisted of a case study about the Psychology licentiate course in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) during the 1960s, and had as methodological procedures the analysis of documents located in the Academic Archive Sector of Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, as well as interviews with students from the same course during the 1960s. As a result of the research, we identified, based on the analysis of data from the dossier on PL nº3825/62, that the first projects that dealt with the formation and regulation of the profession of psychologist in Brazil were forwarded by professional associations that had been practicing psychology since 1953, and that in most of these projects there was no proposal of setting the licentiate as a psychology teachers' formation course, enabling the performance in secondary education. Thus, the licentiate course as a training modality for psychologists with a curricular proposal consistent with the legislation then in force for brazilian teachers training appeared only in 1961, and was maintained in the project that became the law 4119, approved in 1962. From the case study on the licentiate degree in UFMG's Psychology course during the 1960s, it was possible to identify a succession of misconceptions related to this modality, which led us to believe that the training was part of the course for legal reasons that concerned only the Faculdades de Filosofia, locus of installation of the course in that university. In addition, we verified that the contributions of the licentiate to the professional life of the graduates of the 1960s were restricted to methodological aspects learned in the disciplines of the modality.