Memórias de um corpo esquecido

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.