An Interview with Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane (1933-2006): Pioneer of the Brazilian critical and community social psychology

The process of development of community social psychology is described. This process began with the critique of the medical model, as well as psychiatry and psychotherapy in the solution of psychological problems in the context of the critical restatement of the relevancy of social sciences in the explanation of Latin-American reality and the militant commitment with the solution of its problems. This coincides with the period of mainstream social psychology crisis. The response to such crisis is a critical psychology reinserted into the field of social sciences and the qualitative, critical and forgotten perspectives denied by mainstream psychology. From this developments relations with the international emergence of a critical social psychology are established and the community social psychology of Latin America is described as a contribution to such critical perspective.