Tributes (Awards) Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane and Seymour B. Sarason
Seymour B. Sarason was one of the pioneers in Community Psychology. His background was in clinic psychology, but was soon disappointed in the idea, dominant in his field, that individual problems could be analyzed and treated individually. In 1962 he founded the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic, one of the firs centers for training and research in community psychology, an institution that he directed until 1970. Author of over 40 books, Dr. Sarason applied his findings in social psychology to a wide and diverse field of problems that included the treatment of the mentally ill and the handicapped, education reform, teachers’ training and care for the elderly. He was professor emeritus of psychology in the Psychology Department and in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at Yale University. His work has been widely recognized and has received numerous distinctions and Honoris Causa doctorates. Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane (1933-2006) Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane Ph.D. was a distinguished Brazilian psychologist who worked for many years in the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Sao Paulo. In the seventies in Brazil the ideological character of Psychology as a corpus of neutral and universal truths was strongly questioned. In 1979 the dissatisfaction of Latin-American social psychologists was expressed particularly during the Congress of the Interamerican Society of Psychology held in Peru. There, Dr. Maurer Lane presented the symposium “Teaching and research in Social Psychology in Latin-America”. She proposed the challenge of exploring a social psychology for change in each of our countries. A consensus was reached that in order to achieve that goal, the potentiality resided in Community Psychology and in action-research. Dr. Maurer Lane was one of the most active members of the ISP and collaborated with numerous texts in the Interamerican Psychology Magazine. |
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