Juliano Moreira

Juliano Moreira (6 January 1872 – 2 May 1933) was an Afro-Brazilian psychiatrist, often considered the pioneer of psychoanalysis in Brazil.[1][2] Moreira was the first Brazilian university professor to cite and use the psychoanalytic theory in the teaching of medicine.

Juliano Moreira
Born(1872-01-06)January 6, 1872
Salvador,Province of Bahia, Empire of Brazil
DiedMay 2, 1933(1933-05-02) (aged 61)
Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro (state), Brazil
Alma materFaculdade de Medicina da Bahia
Occupationpsychiatrist

Life and career

Juliano Moreira was born on January 6, 1872, in Salvador, capital of the then province of Bahia. He studied at the Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia (Faculty of Medicine of Bahia), today the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), graduating in 1891 with the thesis Sífilis maligna precoce (Early malignant syphilis). In 1896 he became a professor of psychiatry at his alma mater.

From 1895 to 1902, he attended mental illness courses and internships and visited many asylums in Germany, England, France, Italy, and Scotland. In addition to study trips, he was often required to seek out specialists and clinics to treat his own tuberculosis.

When the disease got worse, he took a new license and traveled to Europe for better treatment and later went to a sanatorium in Cairo, where he met Augusta Peick, a German nurse from Hamburg. The two married in the early 1910s and came together to Brazil.[3][4]

From 1903 to 1930, Moreira was the director of the Hospício Nacional de Alienados (National Asylum for the Insane), currently Hospício Pedro II, in Rio de Janeiro. During his tenure, he humanized the patients' treatment and ended their imprisonment.

Moreira spoke against the pseudoscientific racist beliefs espoused at the time, such as that racial miscegenation caused mental illnesses; he defended that they were due to physical and situational factors such as poor hygiene and lack of access to education.[5] Moreira was the first researcher to identify mucosal cutaneous leishmaniasis and sought to prove that the racial issue did not motivate the disease.

Moreira joined the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 1917 and was its president from 1926 to 1929.

Death

Moreira died in 1933 in Petrópolis, in a sanatory to treat his tuberculosis. Colônia Juliano Moreira,[6] a psychiatric colony near Rio de Janeiro was named after him.

References
  1. Juliano Moreira: um psiquiatra negro frente ao racismo científico. Por Ana Maria Galdini Raimundo Oda e Paulo Dalgalarrondo. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, vol. 22 nº 4. São Paulo, dezembro de 2000. ISSN 1809-452X
  2. "Primórdios da psiquiatria no Brasil" (PDF). SciELO.
  3. "HJM foi representado em evento na Assembléia Legislativa da Bahia". Sesab - Secretaria da Saúde do Estado da Bahia (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  4. Santos, Raquel Pinheiro dos. Manoel Bomfim e Juliano Moreira: Aproximações e oposições ao racismo científico na Primeira República. São Gonçalo: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014, p. 99.
  5. Appiah, Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195170559.
  6. Brazil, T.K. (org.), Santana-Junior, E. F., Casais-e-Silva, L. L. Projeto Herois da Saúde na Bahia. Juliano Moreira 1872- 1933
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