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GARCIA HERNANDEZ, Ignacio; LOURO BERNAL, Isabel  e  DE LA CRUZ BLANCO, Graciela. Outline of psychology development and its relationships with health in Cuba in the 1900-1958 period. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2015, vol.41, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-3466.

The objective of this paper is to describe some antecedents of psychology related to health in Cuba. The heuristics, hermeneutic and critical history methods were used in addition to consulting primary and secondary data sources and authors´ testimonies. Bibliography found in public and private libraries, newspaper and periodical archives, information centers and Internet was reviewed. There was obtained documented critical description of the origins of psychology and its relationship with health in Cuba in the 1900-1958 period, the formative settings, some outstanding professionals in the scientific and the political fields as well as theories and explanations about the role of the psychological elements in determination of health, about the affiliation to paradigms of sciences; publications, the first points of meeting of psychology and of psychologists related to health in Cuba, and the beginning of psychology teaching in Cuba until the foundation of the first schools. It was concluded that there was certain level of development of clinical and psychopedagogic psychology in the studied period when positivism prevailed as a theoretical concept, although there were some people who criticized this trend and health mercantilism as a result of the US influence before 1959. The outstanding personalities described in this paper made the subsequent massive formation of psychologists possible, which represent antecedents of the emergence of health psychology in Cuba in the 60´s of the 20th century.

Palavras-chave : history; health psychology; health; identity; antecedents; formation of psychologists.

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