HOW CANDIDATES FOR PSYCHOLOGY COURSE FEEL THAT IS THE RIGHT CHOICE?

Abstract

This article is part of a Doctorate Thesis that investigate the subjective dimension presented in the psychology formation, that part of the research worked on the candidates perception about the professions to be chosen. Describing study approved by the CEP (Nº 108.985), analyses the content of 54 documents based on Psychology perception during the Entrance Test period of a private institution in Salvador, Bahia.  The results confirm the literature of Psychology as a helping profession, and indentify three cores of helping sense: cure, orientation and mediation. It notes that Psychology is known as plural, parting from modernity own values, based on a model of Binary nature of subjectivity that implies in answer the demands of the hegemonic biomedical and neoliberal speech, which could not see the singularities process of the late modernity, described by Stuart Hall.