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International Journal of Advances in Psychology (IJAP) Volume 3 Issue 4, November 2014 doi: 10.14355/ijap.2014.0304.03

Think And Social Action: Report of An Experience Rita de Cássia Vieira Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys, Brazil Email: rita.vieira@ufvjm.edu.br Abstract The aim of this paper is to present a historical narrative about the Clinic of Psychology Edouard Claparède (Clínica de Psicologia Edouard Claparède). This institution had its origin in the Laboratory of Psychology and Educational Research Edouard Claparède (Laboratório de Psicologia e Pesquisas Educacionais Edouard Claparéde), founded by russian psychologist and educator Helena Antipoff in Fazenda do Rosário (Rosario´s Farm), Minas Gerais State (MG), Brazil. The method used was the historiography, specifically in the field of history of psychology. The sources used were written documents and interviews. The study revealed a distinct work, relevance and pioneering of the institution in the context of establishment and consolidation of brazilian scientific psychology. Keywords History Of Psychology; History Of Educational Psychology; Laboratory Of Psychology; Clinic Of Psychology

Introduction Throughout her life story, Helena Antipoff (1892-1974) proved to be tireless in to summon efforts and to congregate people and institutions to reach her goals. Antipoff is known by the establishment and consolidation of Brazilian psychology, she left as symbol of her achievements the involved look with social and cultural issues. In Brazil, were visible in the development of her work the traces left by the learning started in Russia, where the psychology took a new direction, designed based on the historical-cultural perspective. Your choice has always been to utilize the resources of science to discover alternatives to confront social problems, thus improving the quality of life of the poor people. Founded by russian psychologist and educator in the Fazenda do Rosário, now called the Clínica de Psicologia Edouard Claparède from Fundação Helena Antipoff (FHA), an extension of the former Laboratório de Psicologia e Pesquisas Educacionais, exemplarily illustrates this option. Talking about a gradual process of transformation that culminated, in

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the end, a transformation of the initial configuration (from laboratory to clinic), the institution established as a principle the maintenance of the values espoused by its founder. This paper aims; therefore, provide a historical narrative about this institution, taking as guiding its creation as a laboratory for research in the field of educational psychology in the last century. Method The historiography of psychology, understood as a way to address the "development of human consciousness on the extraordinary richness and diversity of concrete experience" (Campos, 1998: 19), was the main method of work. To retrieve and organize the history of the Clinic, document analysis was performed based on primary sources collect in two collections: the Memorial Helena Antipoff, located in Fundação Helena Antipoff (Helena Antipoff Foundation/FHA), Ibirité city/ MG, and Sala Helena Antipoff located at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/UFMG). In this room there is part of restored and preserved sample of the Russian psychologist and educator, as well as other collections in the history of psychology. To complement the data collected, were conducted semi-structured interviews with a psychologist from the institution. The psychologist interviewed Maria José Carneiro worked in the context studied since the beginning of its transformation of the Clinic in Laboratory; she has built during The Fazenda Do RosÁRio´S Laboratory: Theory And Practice To Serve The Community The history of the Clínica de Psicologia Edouard Claparède has its origin in 1995, when Helena Antipoff founded in Fazenda do Rosário, which is located in Ibirité city/ Minas Gerais, the Laboratório de Psicologia e Pesquisas Educacionais Edouard Claparède.


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