This article aims to discuss the process of expansion of the psychologist’s category observed on the last decades in small towns and medium-sized cities in Brazil. This process has pointed out an interiorization of the profession by the relocation of an expressive contingent of professionals and a redefinition of psychology as a profession of big cities and national capitals, as it was historically characterized. The article has the objective of showing that this expansion is related to the urban restructuration process in Brazil through the new socio-spacial dynamism in Brazilian cities according to the restructuration of their financial and communicational relations, to the consolidation of the welfare politics, to the implementation of numerous programs, projects and services in health, mental health and social care and to the increase of graduation courses in the countryside, by the reform and expansion of Brazilian public universities programs or by the dispute of private institutions of higher education in search of new markets. Lastly, it tries to discuss the profession’s movements and machinations inside the political power at present.
Psychology; Social change; Ocuppational attitudes; Health care policy
