Preliminary Notes on the Research "The Formation in Psychology at Ufmg and the Psychiatric Reform Process in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s"

Abstract

This paper is part of a wider research entitled “University organizations and the psychiatric reform process in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s in Minas Gerais, Brazil”, funded by FAPEMIG and coordinated by Maria Stella Brandão Goulart, from PUC-Minas. We researched the university training offered in the period at the following institutions of Belo Horizonte: PUC-Minas, UFMG and FUMEC Psychology courses; post-graduation in Psychiatry offered by FHEMIG at Instituto Raul Soares; post-graduation in Public Health offered by ESMIG (Minas Gerais School of Health). The goals are: to identify and evaluate the participation of formal culture variables in social change processes; to investigate the relationship among the main organizations of professional training in Psychology and Psychiatry in the Psychiatric Reform process in Minas Gerais. In the present article, we present the results related to Psychology courses at UFMG.