“Unlearning 8 hours a day”: psychology and indigenous health

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Catia Paranhos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/5846
• topic: saúde indígena; Sistema Único de Saúde; Psicologia Social; Psicologia; indigenous health; Public Health System; Social Psychology; salud indígena; Sistema único de Salud; Psicología Social

This text is a cartography based on my experiences as a Psychology teacher and as a worker in the care and management of the Public Health System with the Kaiowá and Guarani peoples in the region of Dourados – Mato Grosso do Sul. The Human and Social Sciences and Public Health have significant accumulations of the countless types of violence and violations of the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil. But one question remains unanswered: Until when? The qualification of the Public Health System and the strengthening of health as a right of citizenship, especially in the construction of an Indigenous Health that respects, in a radical way, traditional knowledge and practices, imply many unlearning of Psychology and other workers of the and by Public Health System. Among the countless challenges and uncertainties, it is urgent to relearn how to live with traditional peoples and build collective confrontations to biopolitical practices of medicalization and life imprisonment.