MEDICALIZATION AND PATHOLOGIZING OF EDUCATION: CHALLENGES TO SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This work had as the object of study the historical, cultural and social constitution that transforms learning and behavior difficulties experienced in the schooling process into individual problems, of biological and / or organic nature. The research consists in the analysis of the medical-scientific discourse production that consolidates bases of interpretation of the referring to the learning difficulties as medical or psychological problems, as well as in the organization of the information in a Timeline, about how The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have been treating learning difficulties since its first edition. For feasibility, a bibliographic search was carried out in sources such as MEDLINE, PubMED, LILACS, SCIELO, PsycInfo. To compile data and explain the results, the DSM Timeline is presented, which is published in the Virtual Health Library - VHL PSI, at: http://newpsi.bvs-psi.org.br/ uploads / line% 20do% 20time% 20DSM / line.html, and will be periodically fed.