%0 Journal Article %T Mem¨®rias de um corpo esquecido %A Goia %A Jorge %J Revista do Departamento de Psicologia. UFF %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0104-80232007000100008 %X this article aims to research the multiple roles of the human body within studies of psychology. the author uses various moments of bio-medical sciences and psychological history in brazil to propose three periods to analyse: a time of biological determinism; after that, a desertion of the body during the hegemony of psychoanalysis; and finally the proliferation of body therapies imposing patterns of health. even though they give different emphases to body/mind dualism, these psychological models remain active within the modern science project. a new approach to the body and psychology would need therefore discussing political aspects of modern science project. %K body %K psychology %K history. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-80232007000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en