Psychology Student at Bahiana is nationally awarded

The student of the Psychology course at Bahiana, Rachel Malheiros Teixeira, was among the 10 best Brazilian students with scientific papers registered in the Silvia Lane Award **, 4th edition (2009 – 2010). with the monograph Franco Basaglia's attributions to the field of mental health and Brazilian psychiatric reform, Rachel won third place and will have her work published on the website of Brazilian Association of Psychology Teaching – ABEP, the entity responsible for the award and in the Virtual Library in Saúde.

Divided into the categories of Course Completion Paper – TCC – and Internship Report – RE -, the Silvia Lane Award is an ABEP initiative and aims to disseminate and encourage research in the field of psychology in Brazil. The first place in each category, in addition to having the work published, received as an award, the cost of travel and accommodation to participate in the III Brazilian Congress of Psychology: Science and Profession.

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** Silvia Lane (1933/2006), professor and director of PUC/SP, was one of the people who most contributed to the development of Psychology in Brazil. Author of several works in the field of Psychology, especially in the area of ​​the analysis of subjectivity, she believed in and fought for the Latin American union in the field of Psychology.

Professor Silvia Lane founded ABRAPSO, the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology. As a member of the faculty of the graduate program in Social Psychology at PUC/SP, he helped train many professors who today, throughout the country, teach a psychology guided by critical thinking, concerned with the urgent needs of Brazilian society.