Memorial

Abstract

This memorial is part of the requirements for promotion to the Class of Full Professor of the Higher Teaching Career at the Federal University of Uberlândia/UFU and was organized with the aim of presenting, in historical retrospective, the set of activities related to my trajectory throughout of the last 25 years of employment with the Institute of Psychology/UFU, in addition to other professional activities as a psychologist and English teacher. I developed a degree in Psychology at the Federal University of Uberlândia (1986-1991), a Master's degree in Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (1993- 1995) and PhD in Psychology at the University of São Paulo (2001-2005). I did a post-doctorate at CWASU - Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, an institution linked to the London Metropolitan University, in London (2009-2010). In 1988 and 1989 I was an English teacher at the CCAA language school. From 1996 to 1998 I worked as a licensed psychologist at the Municipality of Uberlândia. During that same period, I was a professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Federal University of Uberlândia/UFU. In August 1998, I joined the same institution after being approved in a public competition for teaching. At UFU, I develop teaching, research and extension activities in undergraduate and master's degrees, I supervise internships in the area of ​​Clinical Psychology and I guide scientific initiation students, course completion work and master's degrees. Typically, publications such as books, book chapters and articles predominantly articulate Psychoanalysis, violence and family. Since 2017, I have been part of the team at the NUAVIDAS clinic – Nucleus for Attention to Victims of Sexual Assault, at the Hospital de Clínicas/UFU, with weekly visits to children and adolescents who are victims of sexual violence. As for the management activities performed, I was the director of CLIPS – Clínica de Psicologia (2011-2013) and coordinated the Graduate Program in Psychology (2015-2017). The writing of the memorial brought out the resonances of an intense journey, highlighting the learnings and mishaps of academic life and also, prospectively, propelled me to think about the next postdoctoral degree and the projects to be built in the years to come.