“…In 1966, Lopes was chosen to be the first president of the newly founded Brazilian Psychiatry Association. Over the years, he increased its production on historical topics, both psychopathological and philosophical, in addition to his old passion for the psychiatric diagnosis 3 : "The psychiatry and the old hospice" (1965); "Pour un diagnostic en psychiatrie" (in French: 'For a diagnosis in psychiatry') (1977); "Jaspers and Heidegger" (1983); "Delusion: perspectives and treatment" (1982), among others.…”