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The Institution of Psychology. Notes on its History in México

Daniel Alejandro Gonzalez Loranca

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La presencia de la psicología en México cada vez va en aumento en diferentes ámbitos del día a día, por lo que el propósito de este trabajo consistió en indagar cuáles fueron las condiciones que posibilitaron la emergencia de esta disciplina en el país a través de un análisis histórico y biopolítico. A partir de este trabajo se encontró que la psicología se constituyó en México como una práctica legitimada por el Estado mexicano a principios del s. XX. Sin embargo, los procesos que posibilitaron su emergencia datan del s. XIX. Por lo que es necesario tomar en cuenta que no se trató de una situación contingente, sino que más bien respondió a diferentes factores como lo fueron: la consolidación del modelo de Estado-nación, la modernización de ese Estado-nación, la transformación de la locura en una enfermedad, la constitución del individuo libre regulado por un Estado de derecho. Con base en esto, se tiene que la psicología, a pesar de surgir en un contexto que pretendía la atención y prevención de la locura en la población mexicana, no obstante, fungió como un dispositivo normalizador que ya no necesitaba el escenario del hospital psiquiátrico para intervenir, sino que ahora podía intervenir en el ámbito tanto familiar como educativo con el pretexto de coadyuvar al desarrollo normal de los niños.

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Loranca, D. A. G. (2026). The Institution of Psychology. Notes on its History in México. Boston Research Journal of Medical & Pharma, 1(1). https://bostonresearch.org/scholarly-article/the-institution-of-psychology-notes-on-its-history-in-mexico/

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