Neurosciences Advances in Brazil: The Demise of Psychology?

Abstract

This work aims to present a discussion about the relations that are established between psychology and neuroscience to the production of the apparatus of brain nowadays. First, science is characterized on its search for an object of study that will allow full acknowledgement of the reality regarding that object, the same manner as in brain studies a way of ultimately explaining the subject and the world. Afterwards, the future of psychology is questioned, hence the fields of neuroscience start to dominate the comprehension of the humans soul. A transformation on the clinical and the interiority vectors, remodeling the idea of the human Ìs inner being and, consequently, the psychological image of ourselves. To finish up, we situate the psychology of the 21 Ìst century on the context of somatic culture, questioning it Ìs position since the beginning as science of the normal and the adaptive.

 

Keywords: Clinic, Neuroscience, Psychology, Interiority.