Behavior Therapy and Modelo Latinoamérica; Assembling and Demarcating Psychology in Colombia

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThe set of psychological techniques known as Behavior Therapy is reframed as a sociotechnical device and its circulation from the US to Colombia in the 1970s is reconstructed. The circulation of Behavior Therapy is described in academic spaces such as Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Javeriana. The possibility of Behavior Therapy as a Boundary Object as a mean for demarcation from psychiatry, and as a way for promoting and mobilizing scientific discourses about subjectivity. Thus, a relation between the training guidelines for psychology curricula known as Modelo Latinoamérica and the assemblage of Behavior Therapy is outlined. Finally, some considerations for future interdisciplinary research on the history of psychology are proposed. Keywords history of psychology; Colombian psychology; psychological technologies; boundary objects; science and technology studies r e s u M e n El conjunto de técnicas psicológicas conocido como Terapia del Comportamiento es replanteado como un dispositivo sociotécnico y se realiza una reconstrucción de su circulación desde EEUU hacia Colombia en los años 70. Posteriormente, se describe la circulación de la Terapia del Comportamiento en espacios académicos como la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y la Universidad Javeriana. Adicionalmente se discute la posibilidad de entender la Terapia del Comportamiento como un Objeto-Frontera, un medio para la demarcación con respecto a la psiquiatría, y una forma de promover y movilizar discursos científicos sobre la subjetividad. De esta manera, se delimita una relación entre los lineamientos de entrenamiento para currículos en psicología conocidos como Modelo Latinoamérica y el ensamblado de la Terapia del Comportamiento. Por último, se ofrecen algunas consideraciones para futuras investigaciones interdisciplinarias en el campo de la historia de la psicología.Palabras clave historia de la psicología; psicología colombiana; tecnologías psicológicas; objetofrontera; estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología

The psychosocial management of rights restitution: Tracing technologies for reparation in post-conflict Colombia

“…The epistemic project of psychology in Colombia has, since its beginnings, been deeply grounded in quantification (Jaraba- Barrios, 2011;Martinez-Pulido, 2007;Martinez-Pulido, 2010;Mora-Gámez, 2014). data creates a space where there is the possibility for something different to occur.…”

“…The epistemic project of psychology in Colombia has, since its beginnings, been deeply grounded in quantification (Jaraba-Barrios, 2011; Mora-Gámez, 2014; Pulido-Martínez, 2007, 2010). The ongoing deployment of reparation policies offers a particular scenario in which psychology participates in the quantification and visibilization of the consequences of historical violence in communities and individuals across the national territory.…”