Banca de DEFESA: KHALIL JOBIM

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STUDENT : KHALIL JOBIM
DATE: 17/12/2025
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
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KEY WORDS:

Trajectory, João Machado, psychiatry, modernization.

PAGES: 146
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This work aims to analyze the circumstances that favored the implementation of a new psychiatry in Natal between the 1930s and 1960s. The investigation is based on the trajectory of the psychiatrist João da Costa Machado, from Rio Grande do Norte, between 1936—when he began his professional career in the capital—and 1965 (the year of his death). Throughout this period, João da Costa Machado sought to introduce a project in the city, inspired by modernizing ideas, to create an institution to treat patients who lived in Rio Grande do Norte and who were considered insane. This project was associated with a broader action undertaken by doctors and the Brazilian State to institutionalize madness. Understanding Machado's project required a study of both the elements that comprised his professional training and the medical practices developed with people considered insane in Natal. The goal of the investigation is to analyze the strategies mobilized by this psychiatrist to work with individuals and institutions in the urban space. From a theoretical standpoint, this work is anchored in the concept of symbolic capital, as argued by Pierre Bourdieu, and in the reflections of Carlo Ginzburg and Giovanni Lévi on the evidentiary method. Regarding sources, the research utilized three groups: the first group comprised the newspapers O Diário de Natal and A Ordem; the second consisted of João Machado's own personal archive, which contains—among other things—his writings, letters, and photographs; and the third group consisted of interviews I conducted with João Machado's family and friends. The thesis defended in this work is that João Machado needed to mobilize, during his professional trajectory in Natal, a series of strategies to acquire the symbolic capital necessary to implement the changes he believed were needed to modernize psychiatric services in the state. In this sense, João Machado needed to build a network of relationships, acquired through circulation in various social spaces within the city, in order to obtain a specific type of capital to incorporate into the urban space of Natal.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1088824 - RAIMUNDO NONATO ARAUJO DA ROCHA
Interno - ***.394.804-** - FRANCISCO FIRMINO SALES NETO - UFCG
Interno - 1149437 - RAIMUNDO PEREIRA ALENCAR ARRAIS
Externo à Instituição - GABRIEL LOPES ANAYA - Fiocruz - RJ
Externo à Instituição - IRANILSON BURITI DE OLIVEIRA - UFCG