This communication is concerned with the relation of individual psychology and academic psychology at the time of Alfred Adler, first a Freud`s follower and then a dissident. Adler`s ambivalent relation to academic psychology, caused by his failure in his habilitation attempt, and the anti-academic attitudes of some of his followers, are contrasted with the points of view of two academic psychologists: William Stern and Kurt Lewin.

This communication is concerned with the relation of individual psychology and academic psychology at the time of Alfred Adler, first a Freud`s follower and then a dissident. Adler`s ambivalent relation to academic psychology, caused by his failure in his habilitation attempt, and the anti-academic attitudes of some of his followers, are contrasted with the points of view of two academic psychologists: William Stern and Kurt Lewin.

Investiga sobre los modelos teóricos y metodológicos de la antropología médica y la etnomedicina; la crítica de la medicina; estudios postcoloniales y el desarrollo de modelos alternativos en salud pública. Para el estudio de campo se realizaron entrevistas de corte narrativo centradas en un tema, etnografías y observación participante con curanderos tradicionales, académicos e investigadores expertos en medicina tradicional, autoridades de salud y educación, personal de salud, practicantes de medicina alternativa y activistas sociales en Lima, La Libertad, Ica y Lambayeque. Estos datos se complementaron con documentación bibliográfica, documentación oficial sobre políticas y programas de salud a nivel nacional, regional e internacional, investigaciones previas, literatura científica y material de archivos. El material fue analizado con el modelo de la grounded theory y ot...