O presente artigo apresenta alguns esforços reflexivos incipientes acerca da viabilidade
teórico-filosófica de um diálogo entre behaviorismo radical/análise do comportamento e
psiquiatria, enquanto especialidade médica preocupada com os problemas “mentais e do comportamentoâ€.
Tal aproximação, apesar de incipiente, parece promissora e vem se mostrando
muito produtiva na prática daqueles que lidam com problemas do comportamento. Baseando
a reflexão predominantemente na psiquiatria biológica e num de seus principais pilares, as
neurociências, defende-se que o behaviorismo radical poderia ajudar a dar rumo para estas
disciplinas que, por sua vez, poderiam ajudar na compreensão e estudo de partes do comportamento
que ocorrem no organismo, principalmente nos problemas do comportamento. Em
outras palavras, o autor suporta a tese de que tal diálogo ajudaria muito no aprimoramento
de ambas as disciplinas e que a separação entre elas é menos nÃtida do que vem se assumindo
de ambos os lados.
The present paper presents some initial reflexive efforts in order to evaluate the
viability of a dialogue between radical behaviorism/behavior analysis and psychiatry, taken
as the branch of medicine concerned with “mental and behavioral†problems. Such an approximation,
in spite of incipient, seems promising to those who have been experiencing it
in practice, once it has been showing very productive in the matter of behavioral problems.
Basing the reflexive efforts mainly in biological psychiatry, as well as in its main ground, the
neurosciences, it is proposed that radical behaviorism could give direction to these disciplines
that, in their turns, could help to understand and to study parts of the behaviors that happens
in the organism, especially in terms of behavioral problems. In other words, the author supports
the view that, especially in the field of the problems of behavior, such a dialogue would
give much help in the improvement of both areas and that the distinction between them is not
as clear as it has been taken.
