I’m a psychologist and so What? Training in psychology and the production of a certain psi identity in Brazil.

Abstract

The purpose of this problematization is to give politically engaged teaching visibility to issues of sexualities, pleasures and genders in the training of Psychology professionals in Brazil. The experiences of both authors led to concerns about which Psychologies, after all, the relationships of knowledge and powers are acting in the formation of psi, based on the analysis of the National Guidelines for Training in Psychology. Problematizations arise at this moment: Would there actually be an articulation of opening academic knowledge to the demands of social movements? Would Psychology as a science and profession be willing to open up to methodological, epistemological and expressions of action and intervention renewals beyond diagnosis and “treatment”? Is there a psi identity? We problematize the discomfort that exists in being (re)recognized as psi professionals, to this end we seek to give visibility to the production of concepts dear to Shepherding Psychology such as identity, to the detriment of the production of subjectivities and singularities. We conclude this work, with problematizations about the production of psi identities in interfaces with the valuation of the production of multiplicities of action and production of knowledge in Psychology training. These expansions would occur through the deterritorialization of so-called traditional psychological training strategies, which end up promoting a certain way of presenting themselves as Psychology professionals.