TITLE:
Social Hygiene Movement and Psychology: Towards Another Paradigm in Mental Health
AUTHORS:
Rafael Nogueira Furtado, Juliana Aparecida de Oliveira Camilo, George Moraes de Luiz
KEYWORDS:
Hygienism, Psychology, Psychosocial Attention, Public Health
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.9 No.5,
May
10,
2018
ABSTRACT: This article discusses the relationships between social hygiene movement and psychology, seeking to present a healthcare paradigm, alternative to hygienism. Social hygiene movement was a popular social movement in Europe and the Americas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its ideas and methods influenced psychology, among many other scientific fields. This influence resulted in social control practices, aimed at the segregation of individuals who did not conform to current social norms. In contrast, at the end of the twentieth century, a paradigm emerges in mental health, called Psychosocial Attention. This paradigm establishes a way of understanding and dealing with mental health, different from that hitherto practiced by the psychology and psychiatry of the time. Thus, this article explains the principles in which Psychosocial Attention is based and the devices idealized for its materialization.