Por uma clínica: racializada relações raciais e psicologia clínica - uma análise da branquitude a partir do materialismo histórico-dialético

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Júlia Pagano
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/39976
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA; Racismo; Branquitude; Psicologia clínica; Materialismo histórico-dialético; Racism; Whiteness; Clinical psychology; Historical-dialectic materialism

Racism, as a system of domination-exploitation-oppression intrinsic to capitalism, makes people sick and produces suffering. Psychology, therefore, has been called upon to deal with this issue, in the dimension that belongs to it, the subjectivity. In the area of Clinical Psychology, a movement to think about racism is incipient, aiming to build a Clinical Psychology aligned with anti-racism. However, we are faced with historical contradictions present in the field of Race Relationships and Clinical Psychology. Among them, one issue seems fundamental: whiteness. Based on this, the present research is characterized as a theoretical-exploratory study analyzing the relationship between Clinical Psychology and whiteness, based on Historical-Dialectical Materialism (Marx and Engels) and Social-Historical Psychology (Vygotsky). In general, the purpose of the research is to face racism within Clinical Psychology, more specifically, contributing to the construction of a clinical reasoning within a racialized clinic and to the construction of an anti-racist Clinical Psychology. To this end, we discuss the categories of race and racism from Historical-Dialectical Materialism; we review the literature on the category of whiteness and articulate it with Social-Historical Psychology; we criticize Psychology as a science and profession, denaturalizing both the subject of Psychology and who builds Psychology in Brazil; and, finally, we understand the contradictions and challenges for the construction of a racialized Clinical Psychology. We conclude that the hegemonic notion of health, the basis of Psychology, is based on whiteness; that whiteness is a system that forms human beings from alienation, while whiteness is an alienated subjectivity, product of this system; and, therefore, as long as whiteness mediates the subjective constitution of white people, it will always be alienated. We point out that the mechanisms of whiteness precludes qualified clinical listening and emphasize that it is not only about the clinical management itself, but Clinical Psychology as an institution constituted by whiteness. Likewise, whiteness is not about race itself, but about a logic, a structure, a system - and its confrontation implies the construction of new forms of sociability, which break with capitalism, racism and white supremacy