La Psicología en los claustros tucumanos: desde el Instituto de Psicotecnia y Orientación Profesional hasta la creación de la carrera de Psicología (1948-1959)

Abstract

The topic of this research responds to the need to problematize the beginnings of psychology in the northwestern Argentina region through psychotechnics and professional orientation. Thus, a work is presented on the early development of the Psy disciplines in the Tucuman university field.

It is intended to reconstruct the process of institutionalization and professionalization of Psychology in the Tucuman University environment, in the period between the creation of the Institute of Psychotechnics and Professional Orientation in 1948 and the creation of the Psychology career in 1959. The Institute supported the search for the “personal fulfillment” of the individual through professional orientation, in close connection with the public policies emanating from the Peronist State linked to work and education. In this process, there was a continuity of the theoretical and clinical content and interests of those who inhabited the Institute and the career in its beginnings;  for example, with a strong psychoanalytic imprint.