Reinier Rozestraten em Ribeirão Preto: memórias e enraizamento da Psicologia no Brasil

Abstract

What follows is half an interview, half a passionate first-person report made by and with Professor Reinier Johannes Antonius Rozestraten, with the aim of remembering and telling his years at Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo, Brazil). He begins some time before, remembering how and when he arrived to Brazil, and what have been his first activities, and goes until more recent years, after his official retirement. Language is free and the whole text is a result of dialogues that were transcribed and edited with as few interferences as possible. The interviews were planned as part of another research project, but it is ended now, due to the death of Professor Reinier. Anyway, they constitute a very deserved homage to an important consolidator and immortal witness of brazilian psychology.

Historicizando a trajetória de um pioneiro

“…Biografias anteriores sobre Rozestraten sinalizaram aspectos de sua história de que ora nos valemos (e.g., Campos, 2001b;Rozestraten, Maciel & Vasconcellos, 2008). Entretanto, acrescentamos a tais resultados o uso de fontes primárias textuais ainda pouco exploradas na história do biografado -na interlocução com fontes orais (e.g., entrevistas com ex-alunos e ex-colegas).…”

“…O objetivo deste estudo foi acompanhar o itinerário de Reinier Johannes Antonius Rozestraten (1924Rozestraten ( -2008 Todavia, acreditamos que este estudo apresenta uma personagem relevante para a história da Psicologia brasileira, cujos impactos parecem ter ecoado na constituição de certos campos da Psicologia, no país. Inclusive, o estudo abre caminhos para novas investigações promissores sobre a biografia histórica de Rozestraten.…”

Reinier Rozestraten’s Archives of the History of Psychology.

“…Reinier Johannes Antonius Rozestraten (1924Rozestraten ( -2008 was a Dutch psychologist who worked as professor in Brazil from 1957 to 2008 at a number of universities, including Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais; and Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Campus. He is commemorated as a pioneer in the institutionalization and disciplinarization of traffic psychology in the country (Campos, 2001;Rozestraten, Maciel, & Vasconcellos, 2008). He worked at UCDB as a professor of experimental psychology, history of psychology, and traffic psychology from 2000 until 2008.…”