Etnopsiquiatria: histórico e evolução

• Main Author: Conceição, Augusto Costa
• Publication Date: 2013
• Format: Doctoral thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Download full: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15200
• topic: Ethnopsychiatry; Subalternity; Immigration; Multiculturalism; Subjectivity; Afro-Brazilian Culture; Etnopsiquiatria; Subalternidade; Imigração; Multiculturalismo; Subjetividade; Psiquiatria cultural História; Psicologia étnica; Cultura afro-brasileira; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

This study examines the journeys of various subaltern groups in historical contexts of colonialization or decolonialization which simultaneously support and defy globalization and an alternative to elite domination. The effects of the presence of these groups in different dimensions of multicultural formation, particularly those in Afro-Brazilian matrix communities, are also examined. The multicultural formation process promotes reconfiguration of different aspects of society through: the emergence of different cultures and values; new and old polítical demands; forgotten texts; polítical biographies; repressed styles and demands and generally processes that lead to diversity of knowledge and being. They can be observed with the global scenario of greater cultural space in the west, international migration and the presence of the African matrix in different spaces, all within globalization and internationalism of culture, under policies that promote the most intense interconnections of life ever known on Earth. To make sense of this, it s necessary to establish new horizons and look to new utopias. Thus I refer to Frantz Fanon whose thoughts serve for elaborated reflection and were used for the battle of liberation of Algeria in the 1950s and 60s. Fanon constructs fertile terrain for understanding relations of dominance and the perception of violence used by the west as well as how these translate into the human psyche. Thus he articulates psychology/ psychiatry with reference to history and polítical theory. One of the axes of his thoughts is the theory of alienation, seen in colonial, racial and gender relations. The study then turns to the Afro-Brazilian matrix from the colonial to the republican period, which uses culture for resistance and reconfigures its subjectivity in the post-colonial period. Community leaders that incarnated the resistance during the colonial period are transferred to the republican period in the Brazilian imagination as defence symbols intransient in their principles and values but with great sensitivity and negotiation capacity