Psicografia: sua identificação como uma espécie documental na área arquivística

Abstract

The object of Archival Science is the information and the record, its primary, historical and evidential values within the context they are stored. The purpose of this research is to investigate how the psychography can be identified as a record species, regarding the fact that there is not reference of such record in Archival Science. In Brazil, research on psychography have been allowing an increasing number of essays in different areas of knowledge such as Law. Also in Brazil, the Spiritist Doctrine is seen as the third “religion” by IBGE data from 2010. The psychography is the outcome from an activity entitled mediumistic session within spiritist organizations. The methodology applied to this research is related to a bibliographical research also a literary review on subjects as Archival Science, Record identification, records management, Psychograph. The sources of the material applied in the research came from BDTD, a variety of websites, articles and journals from the Internet. Concerning the results, it is possible to affirm that identifying records which are excluded from technical journals and books in Archival Science is a complex task. For now, it is possible to state that psychography is a documentary species and we can identify, classify and describe it according to the context of its production.