ABSTRACT.
This study analyzed the techniques, knowledge, and practice that are regarded as psychological in Rio de Janeiro in the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930). This was marked by a methodology that prioritized the survey of primary literature sources (articles, books, and technical reports of the time). This option implied a systematic selection of themes for discursive analysis. Consequently, we found that there were approximations and convergences between areas of applied psychology that later would be occupied institutionally by well-separated spaces. Therefore, we considered that the designation given to psychological knowledge, practice, or technique was not always based in independent areas of application. From this perspective, it appears that there were several diverse attempts to classify psychological practices, not unlike the field of the History of Psychology that is researched today. The research demonstrated that there weren’t areas such as the “History of Clinical Psychology” or the “History of School Psychology.” in the period (1889-1930), but these themes were not entirely distinguished.
Keywords:
History; psychology; practices