SIPS 2026 Online

oLT16: Anglo-American School and Continental School: Two Influences on the Constitution of Brazilian Psychology
2026-05-07 , Track 1

We analyze Brazilian psychology's historical constitution under dual Anglo-American and Continental European influences, arguing their reception produced incomplete scientific implementation characterized by epistemological dependency, institutional fragmentation, and absence of integrated national scientific programs. Anglo-American traditions primarily influenced educational and organizational fields, while Continental traditions dominated clinical training and critical orientations. Examining the period from late-nineteenth-century academic introduction through the mid-1990s demonstrates how uncritical importation produced dual epistemological colonization without national programmatic synthesis. The anti-asylum movement achieved ethical-political gains without robust methodological consolidation. Paradoxically, contemporary anticolonial movements, coinciding with graduate program expansion, distanced Brazilian psychology from international standards, deepening methodological gaps and compromising advanced training. Despite possessing the Americas' largest psychologist contingent, Brazilian psychology faces paradoxes such as minimal global scientific insertion, curricular fragmentation, low remuneration, and high professional precarity, requiring integrated national programs articulating methodological rigor, social responsibility, and strategic international engagement.


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Professor of Psychology on Behavioral Genetics and BIopsychology, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo. Associate Professor of PSychology and the Graduate Program In Health Psychology (Biopsychology) at the Methodist University, Brazil.

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