Studies and Research in Psychology was first published in 2001. It is a journal of the School of Psychology of Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) – a Brazilian public university – which emphasizes the publication of original articles, research reports, PhD thesis reports and reviews in the field of Psychology and related areas. It also publishes translations of scholarly articles, duly accompanied by the consent of the original publication source, film reviews and interviews that contribute new knowledge and understanding to the area. Studies and Research in Psychology has received A2, a very high rating for a periodical, by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, it adopted from 2024 the system of publication in continuous flow. e-ISSN: 1808 4281 / First published: 2001 – printed, 2001 – electronic / Area of knowledge: Psychology / Qualis: A2 (Psychology - Quadrennium 2017-2020) / Frequency: continuous flow
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Remote Psychological Counseling During Covid-19: A Proposal from a Public University in Paraná
Throughout the pandemic, mental health services using Information and Communication Technologies were recommended to mitigate the impact of social distancing measures. This study analyzes the demands and interventions of a remote psychological counseling program by telephone, promoted by a university in Paraná. It is a descriptive and quantitative study based on data from 60 counseling records conducted over 24 weeks. The predominant age group was 51 to 60 years of age (21.7%). A significant increase in psychological symptoms during the pandemic was observed, including sleep and appetite changes, stress-related physical symptoms, and episodes of depressive mood. The main interventions were psychoeducation (78.3%) and strategies to manage suffering (68.3%), while referrals to specialized services occurred in 21.7% of cases. The results suggest that psychological counseling via telephone was an effective strategy to address mental health needs during the pandemic, highlighting its potential as an accessible and efficient resource in crisis scenarios.
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Between Death and Invisibility: A Clinical Analysis of the Work Activity of Gravediggers
Gravediggers are workers responsible for conducting the final moments of funeral rituals. This article aimed to analyze the activity of gravediggers considering these workers as active subjects in the process of analyzing their own activity. Therefore, we used the theoretical and methodological contributions of the Activity Clinic, developing clinical qualitative research. Nine gravediggers of a private cemetery located in the countryside of northeastern Brazil participated in this study. Data construction included the observation of working context, individual and group interviews mediated using Double Instruction Technique. We verified that besides the burials, exhumations are the activities that require the most physical and psychic investment from the gravediggers. These workers highlight the need of having courage to perform a job that is highly rejected by society. However, they manage to create new meanings for the prejudices suffered daily and carry out their professional attributions working together, developing interpersonal relationships marked by the use of humor, as well as building cooperation agreements and accessing the collective and transpersonal memory of these attributions.
Who Should the Child Should Live With? A Student Decision-Making Study Between Brazil and England
This study aimed to investigate the awareness of undergraduate students regarding the best interests principle of children and adolescents, and how they consider it in cases of custody disputes following conjugal separation. The research employed a quantitative approach with an experimental design based on vignettes. A total of 530 undergraduate students from Law, Psychology, and Social Work programs in Brazil and England were recruited. The results revealed that most students have little knowledge or have never heard of the best interests of the child/adolescent during their academic training. The students tended to maintain the current custody arrangement when dealing with the contextual needs of the child (e.g., mental health, emotional bonds). They changed their decision-making style when dealing with material-physiological needs (e.g., food, housing). This article discusses the implications of these decision-making patterns, as well as the lack of literacy on the best interests of the child/adolescent in the training of these undergraduate students.
A Story on Every Street: Limoeiro/PE's Relations with Homeless Population
This article aims to understand the meaning given by the inhabitants of Limoreiro-PE to the living place of the homeless population in the city's daily life. For this, we address a conception of urban spaces as the places producing affections, memories, visible in everyday life. The study has a qualitative and interventional character. We used the method of clinical cartography to collect and construct narratives through intervention/research modalities such as the narrative interview and the journal. The collaborating participants were inhabitants of Limoeiro-PE and the methodology for the analysis of the collected material was the "Analytic of Meaning", proposed by Critelli. Through cartographic action, phenomena such as the practice of different forms of violence directed to the homeless population, the coexistence of relations of social visibility and invisibility, and the possible ways of care to existing policies and struggles were found. From this, the clinical action in everyday life in interface with the right to health is brought as a possibility for intervention, allowing the visualization of vulnerability contexts and the understanding that the conception of health must be in interrelation with the demands of social, political and existential order.
Between Proof and Care: Ethical and Technical Impasses in Special Testimonial Law
The special testimonial is a procedure provided by Law 13.431/2017, which establishes the system of rights guarantees of children and adolescents victims or witnesses of violence. The protocol adopted in São Paulo assigns its conduction to the professionals who compose the technical teams, whose function consists of intermediating the hearing with the audience room. Therefore, the aim was to analyze the understanding of the practitioners of Law and the professionals of the technical teams concerning the participation of the latter in the procedures of special testimonials in cases involving child and adolescent sexual abuse. The research is of descriptive nature, exploratory and analytical, based on qualitative methodology through interviews performed with thirteen of these professionals. The analyses show divergences between both groups when it comes to the use of this strategy as a means which guarantees the whole protection of children and adolescents. It is concluded that the substitution of one professional for another and the simple application of an interview protocol should not overcome what is most relevant when addressing this issue: the necessary interprofessional work to be performed between the revelation of the violence and the moment of the testimonial.
In "Carne Viva": The Work of Hatian People in Brazilian Meatpacking Plants and Pandemic Capitalism
This work aims to trace a panorama of the increase in Haitian immigration flow in Brazil over 2010-2020 decade and its labor insertion profile in the meatpacking industry to reflect on the conditions of the division of origin, racial and sexual work in the sector in Brazilian geopolitical context and covid-19 pandemic. To this end, theoretical study was carried out based on the Actor-Network Theory. It was found that Haitian women find less chance of social mobility in relation to their position in the society of origin (compared to the possibilities of men) and occupy predominantly subordinate and lower-paid positions, without access to conducive conditions to reconciling motherhood and work. Likewise, at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, in 2020, it was found that the meatpacking sector was pressured not to stop, even with the risks involved for its workers. It was concluded that the meat industry usurps rights and engenders systematic killing of animals, people and the environment as a multispecies event result of the systemic degradation generated by the concentration of capital, which causes forced migrations and the supply of precarious jobs to the global chain.
Discrimination in Higher Education: Experiences of Teachers and Students at a Public Institution
The profile of students in Higher Education has changed as a result of policies that have increased access for the poor, the black community, quilombolas and people with disabilities. Considering the elitist heritage of this level of education and the challenges of democratizing it, our aim is to understand the processes of discrimination experienced by teachers and students in Higher Education at a Federal Institute in Northeastern Brazil. In total, 60 teachers, 211 students and 5 managers took part in the research using a mixed methodology. The quantitative phase used an online questionnaire, analyzed using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions 21.0 software, and the qualitative phase involved focus groups and field diaries, which were analyzed using critical hermeneutics, with the support of the Atlas.ti software. The results indicated that 70% of teachers and 88.6% of students had experienced discrimination due to their economic status, body image and gender, especially cases of harassment, marked by silence and shame. Color/race as a reason for discrimination was barely mentioned, despite the large number of brown people among the participants, making its impact on subjectivity invisible. We highlight the need for a policy of continuing teacher training for Higher Education that promotes literacy in Human Rights, contributing to tackling inequalities and oppression.
The Racialization of Light Skinned Black People in Episodes of Everyday Racism
Analyze the process of racialization and racial belonging of light-skinned black people based on scenes of everyday racism. We used interviews with light-skinned black people to understand how their process of subjective constitution and racial belonging takes place. We chose to enunciate occurrences of racism from their daily lives to analyze the meanings socially attributed to their bodies and what are the subjective effects that these produce in their racialization. It became possible to affirm the existence of a specific social place for the light-skinned black person, marked by the denial of their blackness and by the creation of a symbolic position of miscegenation supported by hegemonic Brazilian racial ideologies, which form racialized subjectivities under the precepts of whiteness, in which it produces strategies to keep them in a structural position of racial alienation, in addition to fixating them in a social position of inferiority. Such phenomenon creates barriers to the constitution of a positive black identity.
The Obstetric Violence as Objectification of Woman: A Study on Social Representations
This study aimed to apprehend the contents of women's social representations about obstetric violence and to understand the relationship of social representations with situations of violence experienced in the birth process. This is an exploratory study of a qualitative nature based on the procedural approach of the Theory of Social Representations. Semi-structured interviews were conducted by video call with 30 women who had vaginal delivery between 2017 and 2021. Data were processed in the IRaMuTeQ software, using the Descending Hierarchical Classification for data treatment. The lexical analysis resulted in the identification of two thematic axes that originated six classes. Axis A presented the conceptual and affective dimension of women's representations about obstetric violence and Axis B addressed the experiences from pregnancy to the birth that supported the construction of women's representations about obstetric violence. Women represented obstetric violence as an action to curtail their autonomy, unnecessary behavior and psychological violence. They pointed out the importance of being well informed during prenatal care and of being adequately prepared for the birth process. It is proposed that paths for better maternal and neonatal care be taken with educational actions in prenatal care and qualification of obstetric care.
Margaret Olinda de Souza Carvalho e Lira
Experiences of Anti-Indigenous Racism Against UFAM's Undergraduate Women
When dealing with prejudice and discrimination against indigenous people, literature has named it anti-indigenous racism, a phenomenon that also occurs among university students. Our objective was to analyze, from a psychosocial perspective, the experiences of anti-indigenous racism reported by indigenous undergraduate women at the Federal University of Amazonas during their schooling and graduation. Through qualitative research, with an open narrative interview, four self-declared students from the Baniwa, Mura, Sateré-Maué and Yanomami ethnicities participated. After thematic content analysis, we arrived at the categories: cultural shock with schooling and university; questionings about quotas and indigenous identity; appearance and beauty; language silencing and heteroidentification. We found that episodes of anti-indigenous racism due to prejudice, discrimination and social humiliation generated suffering and non-recognition of the students. We conclude that the university environment is not yet a place that is fully welcoming or respectful of differences, but rather a place that reproduces ethnocentric Western standards of aesthetics, privileges and knowledge.
Frightening the Victors: Practices of Resistance and Monuments of Barbarism
This text derives from two problematic issues: the removal of monuments honoring figures linked to the colonization process and the movements of indigenous peoples against the attempt to institute the Temporal Milestone. This paper aims to analyze both movements as forms of resistance to coloniality and whiteness that have been undertaken in the present and to tense the space of Social Psychology as a field of production of knowledge and practices. As a methodological strategy, we gathered under the rubric of urban narratives of violence, the documents, reports, and other materialities present in the everyday life of cities that are related to the theme discussed here. We base the analysis of the materialities on the studies of authors who discuss the political and social conjuncture of life management in the Global South, of spaces, and the production of subjectivities, especially from the analysis of the effects of whiteness, structural racism, and the cult of violence in the production of such modes of life management.
The Target on the Screens: Scopic Technologies and the Militarization of the Visible
Our purpose in this article is to characterize the contemporary association between vision, knowledge and targeting, which ends, according to our hypothesis, in a scopic device based on the act of targeting and in the constitution of the subject as a target. We start from the concept of skopos, and the analysis of two major regimes of attention, the projective and the immersive, which allows us to distinguish from the position of the agents in the social and economic conflicts of attention capture. On this basis, we conduct an archaeological exercise aiming to exam the development of military vision technologies, and indicate constitutive elements of a perceptual interrelationship in which a form of attention establishes targets, as well as instituting attention itself as a target. The argument goes on to the characterization of a vision politics based on the prescription of targets and on the analysis of its ways of imposing itself as a social device. We also highlight not only the epistemological, but the moral dimension associated with the scientific practices that sustain the targeting device as a whole.
Cognitive Changes in Post-Covid-19 Patients: A Narrative Review Study
The aim is to understand the cognitive changes in post-Covid-19 patients. This is a narrative literature review study that adopted the time frame (2019-2022). The Boolean descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) were used: "Brain" AND "Pandemic" AND "Cognition". The search was carried out on national and international scientific platforms such as: Virtual Health Library (VHL), APA Psycinfo (American Psychological Association), Scopus (SciVerse Scopus), PubMed (National Library of Medicine) from July to November 2022. From reading the material, categories were defined according to the cognitive changes presented in the studies. The Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) is neuroinvasive, that is, it is capable of penetrating the cells of the nervous system and therefore presents a variety of cognitive manifestations. The main cognitive changes caused by Covid-19 infection, according to the reviewed literature, are changes in memory, attention and executive functions. Patients with severe infections or neurodegenerative diseases, women, elderly people or people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities are among the people most vulnerable to the development of these changes. However, symptoms and complaints may vary depending on the individual's pre-morbid state and lifestyle. Therefore, those cognitive manifestations brought significant impacts on people's functionality and quality of life
"Speak about My Idea!": Women MCs in Hip Hop Battles
This article aims to discuss the participation of women in MC battles. Battles are improvised rhyme competitions (freestyle) that are part of the Hip Hop movement and are one of the ways in which rap is presented. Qualitative exploratory research was conducted, using YouTube as a database to search for videos of competitions in which the opponents were a man and a woman. Five videos were selected, one from each region of the country. The gender perspective was used as the category of analysis and content analysis as the method. In addition, images from the videos of the battles were considered with the objective of following the public's reactions to the rhymes. It was found that both young men and women reinforced stereotypical gender roles, even when the young women confronted the machismo of their opponents. It was also found that, in a space constructed from a male perspective, the presence of women is subversive, since many of them question the format of the competition and the sexist attacks directed at them. From this discussion, we hope to contribute to the construction of the knowledge produced about the participation of women in the different elements of Hip Hop culture, a predominantly young movement.
Common Mental Disorders, Socioeconomic and Health Circumstances in Middle-Aged Women
Middle age is a developmental period in which women face physical and social changes, as well as role overload, which can lead to a risk of mental illness. However, this group remains underrepresented in mental health research. This study aimed to verify the prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMD) in middle-aged women and evaluate associations with sociodemographic and health variables. This web-based cross-sectional study analyzed data from 398 women aged 40 to 59, collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The instruments used were a sociodemographic and health questionnaire and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). Chi-square and Spearman's correlation (p≤0.05) tests were performed. There was a high prevalence of CMD in middle-aged women. Considering not having enough money for daily expenses, living only with descendants, brown race/skin color, younger age, worse perceived health, lower education and income, and perception of worsening living conditions were related to higher psychiatric morbidity. The relationships between socioeconomic and health circumstances and the mental health of middle-aged women indicate demands for care linked to gender, race, and social class conditions that must be recognized and accepted.
Parenting in Families in Situation of Social Vulnerability in Brazil: Associated Factors
The interaction between caregiver characteristics, context, and the child/adolescent determines parenting. The objectives of this study were to examine the associations, identify predictors of parenting, and determine whether parenting predicts developmental outcomes in children/adolescents from socially vulnerable families. The sample consisted of 120 individuals divided into three groups based on different levels of social vulnerability: 60 beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program, 30 beneficiaries of Auxílio Emergencial, and 30 non-beneficiaries of either of these programs, but residing in the same communities as the other groups. The instruments used were: Questionnaire for Socioeconomic Characterization and Adverse Events in the Family, Social Support Questionnaire, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale IV, Child Abuse Potential Inventory, Child Behavior Checklist, and the Parenting Styles Inventory. The results indicated that caregivers' psychological characteristics, child behaviour problems, and social support are the main predictors of parenting. Furthermore, positive parenting styles were associated with lower levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and higher levels of social competence. The study reinforces the need for interventions that strengthen support for vulnerable families.
Academic Self-efficacy in Students of Elementary School in Pará
Beliefs are essential factors in students' engagement and performance because in the academic context, they are personal abilities' beliefs to carry out activities and tasks, to achieve goals, and to achieve results in the particular domain of school achievement. In this sense, the objective was to investigate the levels of self-efficacy of 160 students at Elementary School II of a public school in Pará, in the domains of mathematics, reading, and writing. Three scales were used, with batteries of self-efficacy in the respective domains, analyzed quantitatively, using basic statistics. The results indicate that changes such as the transition between teaching stages cause stress and affect emotionally and socially, reflecting on academic performance. While in mathematics, students showed weakened self-efficacy beliefs, identifying themselves as not at all capable (12.7%), somewhat capable (21.5%), and more or less capable (33.5%). Finally, in reading and writing, despite the difficulties of the previous stages and external factors, most feel capable, when compared to their beliefs in mathematics. It is worth emphasizing that students with high beliefs tend to be more resilient facing adversities and are more motivated in their studies and activities.
Masculinity and Femininity Associated with Undertanding of Leprosy and Health Care
This qualitative-descriptive study aimed to investigate the conceptions attributed by patients with leprosy related to health care and psychosocial developments, according to gender. Eight patients with leprosy in multidisciplinary care at the Rehabilitation Division of Institute Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru-SP, with visible physical disabilities and up to five years of diagnosis participated. Data collection was carried out from an interview script with open questions, audio recorded and transcribed in full for content analysis. The results were organized into thematic categories: (1) Perception of signs and search for health services; (2) Notion of healthy body and self-care exercise; (3) Conception of femininity and/or masculinity and (4) Perceived changes after leprosy diagnosis. It is concluded that gender patterns influence conceptions and health care by leprosy patients and this should be considered in the prevention and care of this population.
Professional Interests in Holland's Theory: Contributions to Research
The present study is an integrative literature review, with the objective of surveying studies on professional interests in the last decade (2013-2023) based on the theory of vocational personality proposed by Holland. Searches were carried out in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and PsycoInfo (APA) databases, and in the end, twenty articles were selected and analyzed to understand the perspective proposed by the theorist and the possibilities of use of his theory in scientific research and professional interventions. It was verified, from the studies analyzed in this literature review, that Holland's theory is consolidated and recognized internationally, and his vocational personality model is significantly widespread and used in the work of professional advisors with different audiences (students, workers, people with cognitive and behavioral differences) and as theoretical support in research in Professional and Career Guidance, as well as in the development of instruments for assessing professional interests.
Feelings and Coping Strategies of Elderly People in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil
This current research aims to qualitatively investigate the feelings and coping strategies of elderly people facing the Covid-19 pandemic, especially regarding the impacts caused by home isolation in the first year of the pandemic. Twenty internet users of age sixty or above took part in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted through online platforms, and the data was analyzed using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis. The results are presented in two thematic axes: Feelings and Coping Strategies, the latter understood according to the model proposed by Folkman and Lazarus. Feelings such as fear, insecurity and sadness were predominant. Coping strategies focused on emotions were frequent, with emphasis on religious and spiritual practices, pleasant activities, and the use of technology. For the most part, adaptive coping strategies were adopted and, although less frequent, positive feelings after using coping strategies were reported. It is concluded that the participants demonstrated that they had resources and skills to cope with the crisis scenario. This study contributes to the understanding of emotional experiences and coping strategies adopted by older adults, and is relevant for planning interventions to minimize psychological impacts in crisis scenarios.
Experience Report: Workshops for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention with Students
The school is a favorable space for suicide prevention among adolescents. However, few researches with this purpose are conducted in this context. This study analyzed adolescents' perceptions of their participation in workshops aimed at suicide prevention and mental health promotion. The activity focused on self-awareness, emotional expression, empathy social skill, and interpersonal violence identification. The workshop lasted one hour, using dialogical exposition and small group discussions on problem-based scenarios. A total of 211 students aged between 14 to 20 years participated, with 108 (51.1%) being male, all from a public high school. Eleven workshops were evaluated using a form designed to assess satisfaction and the applicability of the intervention. The data were analyzed quantitatively, and for qualitative analysis, artificial intelligence was used. The results indicated that the workshops enhanced students' positive perceptions about empathy, welcoming friends, and recognizing violence. Aspects such as proximity to adults and stress management require further attention. It was concluded that the workshops promoted empathy, social support, and a perception of benefits to the group. The findings imply interventions and public policies for suicide prevention and mental health in schools.
Identity Formation and Life Projects in Adolescence: Experience Report
This study aims to present an intervention to promote self-knowledge and contribute to the formation of identity and development of life projects among adolescents within the scope of an internship experience report in school psychology. The intervention, implemented by three psychology interns, consisted of six meetings and was attended by 23 students, 12 of whom were female, with an average age of 14 years old, in the 8th grade of a public school in a city in the state of São Paulo. The results suggest that the intervention promoted a space in which behaviors, feelings, and potentialities, previously not observed in the different school environments, flourished, favoring the formation of identity and the construction of the participants' life project. The intervention showed that the belief in the student's potential and the promotion of life projects could be very positive for the healthy development of this phase of life. Providing examples and models and building a respectful and affectionate bond with the students was fundamental for the satisfactory development of the intervention.
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Children's Emotional Regulation: An Integrative Review of Brazilian Literature
Emotional regulation is an important tool that helps individuals adapt to their social contexts. With the aim of analyzing Brazilian studies on child emotional regulation, an integrative literature review of the last 10 years was carried out. The search was carried out through the Portal de Periódicos CAPES, Scielo and LILACS, where the term "emotional regulation" and its synonyms proposed by the Virtual Health Library were used. Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 20 articles were selected and analyzed. It was observed that, although production on the topic has been increasing in recent years, research whose central theme is children's emotional regulation is still scarce. It was also noted the multiplicity of theories and methods employed, although cognitive approaches are most used in these studies. Furthermore, quantitative investigations were predominant, highlighting the efforts of Brazilian researchers to produce knowledge based on national samples that consider the cultural context.
DERA is Feeling/Doing Research, Teaching and Extension: Experience Report during and Post-pandemic
A research, teaching and extension group that aims to promote mental health is presented, indicating the articulation between research, intervention, and scientific dissemination projects. Based on the research projects, which support the teaching and extension, information is offered on social media, which aims to provide guidance and management of emotions and interpersonal relationships, discussing characteristics of the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood, in its relational contexts, in addition to lectures/live sessions for schools and universities, aiming to clarify this phase and to disseminate a psychoeducational project. The objective of this experience report is to tell the story of the feeling/doing of this proposal for articulation between research and interventions, from the coordinator's point of view and with the participants' reports. From this perspective, four challenges are presented: (1) Theoretical; (2) Methodological; (3) Training; and (4) Clinical intervention. The positive evaluations of the participants indicate how the activities have added learning for the understanding of emotions/relationships in research and in personal life. In conclusion, the need for continuous improvement is recognized, hoping that the group will develop new forms of support and empowerment, in order to promote mental health.
Psychological Demands of Elderly and Intermediate Adults Treated at a School-Clinic
Due to population aging and the need to meet the specific demands of this population, there is a need to expand studies aiming to identify the real emotional needs of elderly and intermediate adults. Thus, the objective of this study was to characterize the psychological demands of people aged 50 and over who came to the Psychology School Clinic at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) between 2010 and 2019. Documentary research was carried out on the clinic's consultation records, analyzing medical records of clients aged 50+. As a result, 53 late/older adults were seen in a 10-year period; the identified profile is of women, native to Belém/PA, married/stable union, with completed high school education and working outside home. Regarding emotional demands, 12 categories of complaints were identified, with a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms (19 cases), anxiety symptoms (15 cases) and family conflicts (13 cases). The data shows that the intermediate adult, and especially the elderly, is absent from psychological care facilities when compared to other age groups, presenting critical demands and lacking specialized clinical care focused on Psychogerontology.
Untying the Knots: Gender and Psychopathology Split Among Joanas and Medeas
This study on cultural representations of Medea's myth explores the persistent link between gender category of women and psychopathology. From a critical feminist perspective, it examines historical moments where such characteristics have been connected to a distortion between feminine nature and social construction. The aim is to highlight how this association is rooted in official discourse, generating discrimination in mental health care and in self-representations of female gender. In a Jungian reading, using situated discourse analysis as a method, two works are investigated: the classic Medea by Euripides from 431 B.C. (2013) and Gota d'água (1975/2019) by Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, contextualized in Brazil under the military regime. The main findings point to intense emotion and vulnerability as central attributes of Medea and Joana in the analyzed works. The results also suggest the presence of authorial difference, found in the decolonial perspective of the Brazilian work. In the conclusion, the Jungian symbolic amplification of cultural representations of the feminine proves to be an interesting resource for destabilizing the institutionalized clinical discourses that conceal psychological suffering originating from gender issues. Thus, the need to revise concepts to promote more up-to-date psychotherapeutic approaches in the ethical and political field is highlighted.
Considerations for a Beyond-the-Couch Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Politics
Is there a Psychoanalysis outside the couch? If so, which psychoanalytic clinic are we talking about? Starting from some questions that impose themselves and are agitated in the face of contemporary political issues, in reference to anti-black racism in Brazil, the theorizations carried out in this work carry out the proposal to think about ways for a clinic, guided by Psychoanalysis, which takes effect in the social field from the work Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon. Undertaking the work of returning to Fanon is, to a certain extent, an effort to follow the Lacanian method of returning to Freud, seeking in the Fanonian proposal instruments that help in the commitment to bring us up to par with our times. The steps here are taken starting from the question about the reasons for using Fanonian theory in this context. Next, crossings between the fields of Psychoanalysis and Politics are considered, finally arriving at questions about what to do considering the reflections raised.
Act, Logic and Sexuation: Considerations on the Politics of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
This article aims to revisit the lacanian aphorism "the unconscious is politics" based on the interlocution between unconscious, politics and act, to which we seek to link a fourth element, sexuation - and the consequent introduction of an opposition between two logics, the all-phallic and the not-all. Understanding sexuation beyond the semblances and the phallic signification, turning to the hole and the impossibility of saying everything about sex, is what allows us to think about the logical reduction that produces the unconscious in its fundamental dimension of indeterminacy, which points to the strength of a not-all logic that resists to any imaginary, identity-based or even ontological closure of the subject. The radicality of the psychoanalytic experience resides in this dimension of ontological non-realization, of refusal of completeness, which, when operating with openness to the impossible, to indeterminacy and to lack, promotes ruptures in the significant alienation inherent to the politics of the One.
A Possible Interpretation of Tattoos for Some Teenagers in Conflict with the Law
What is the meaning of tattoos made by some teenagers in conflict with the law? From the observation and listening to these teenagers, we intend to demonstrate that some of them establish important meanings for tattoos. They show some preference for tattooed phrases such as "No love like mother's love" and "VidaLoka". These preferences have significant effects for some of these teenagers: subjective construction of a body, naming and social bounds. In order to understand this meaning, we will investigate the function of tattooing for some adolescents involved in drug trafficking and the vicissitudes of the act of tattooing as a means of incorporation, based on the concept of "contingency" and "naming" by Jacques Lacan. The notion of the imaginary for Lacanian theory will be one of the references to understand this phenomenon in some adolescents. We intend to demonstrate that the category of "contingency", from Lacan's last teaching, exposes a way of bodily construction based on the notion of the real and the political in the action of tattooing.
Competencies for Online Service for Clinical Psychologists: A Documentary Analysis
Working in online clinical psychologist services has several benefits, such as the possibility of reaching geographically distant people. Despite this, the specificities of this work modality demand that professionals develop different skills and abilities compared to face-to-face service. The objective of this study was to analyze and categorize the skills required for clinical psychologists to provide online services, through a documentary analysis of national and international documents and articles. The analysis of the 14 documents and five articles found 31 competences characteristic of online care, which were organized into ten categories (technological skills, financial skills, multidisciplinary skills, scientific skills, emergency skills, patient teaching skills, ethical skills, jurisdiction knowledge skills, contractual skills and multicultural skills). It was noticed that there are differences between skills for online service, as well as a lack of documents that provide guidance for clinical psychologists regarding this type of service, making informative and training strategies necessary.
In this article, I seek to analyze, both theoretically and descriptively, Winnicott's conception of what he characterized as the Primitive Love Impulse. It involves analyzing this proposition within the framework of understanding the fundamental basic impulses that guide and direct human relations. After briefly referring - with the aim of simply establishing a counterpoint and marking differences - to how these impulses were considered historic and critically by Freud and Klein (based on instinctual life, the theory of drives, and sexuality), by Fairbairn (with libido seeking objects) and by Bowlby (with the theory of attachment, aiming at species survival), I aim to show that Winnicott considered the existence of a primitive loving impulse as the expression of being alive (with his consideration of the need to be and continue being). Initially, this impulse was associated with the very notion of motility and later as an impulse in actions in the world that, even though it may cause harm, does not have the intention of destroying it. As a complementary theme to understanding this impulse, one can distinguish between unintentional and intentional destructive actions, contributing to clarifying the origins of aggressiveness in humans, within the framework of Winnicott's theory of emotional development.
How do We Listen to the Symptom in the Brazilian Cultural Neurosis? Significant Articulations in the Culture
This article aims to investigate the ideas developed by Lélia Gonzalez, who discusses racism as a symptom in Brazilian Cultural Neurosis through what is concealed, beyond what is shown. The myth of racial democracy, analyzed by Lélia Gonzalez in most of her texts, is employed in this article as a conceptual tool enabling the interpretation of racism in Brazilian culture. To this end, the paper examines the statements of Sergio Camargo, former president of the Palmares Cultural Foundation during Jair Bolsonaro's government, as one of the repetitions of the symptom in Brazilian Cultural Neurosis. Drawing from the imagery of the "Black Mother" and Zumbi dos Palmares, this research analyzes the fear of whiteness towards Black people, especially those who are not compliant and are viewed as "tyrants". Like Lélia Gonzalez, the article employs psychoanalytic theory to contemplate Brazilian culture. In dialogue with Jacques Lacan's concepts of symptom, the Symbolic, and the signifying chain, the paper examines the connections between symptom and the Symbolic. In addition to Lacanian theory, the article engages with racial, feminist, and post-structuralist studies with the aim of identifying racism as a symptom and analyzing its recurrence in Brazilian Cultural Neurosis.
Between Self-Dominion and Self-Domination: Psychic Subjection in Neoliberalism
This study is aimed to discuss the subjective implications of neoliberalism, whose ethics, based on the logic of competition and on the norm of the company, demand continuous work from the subject on themselves. Based on some assumptions of neoliberal rationality, such as the idea that the individual is the self-interested self in search of the best opportunities in the market, we propose a discussion around the modes of subjection from which and by which we are called to constitute ourselves as subjects, which, in neoliberalism, is transmuted from self-dominion, as an ethical operation that implies the relationship of oneself with oneself to self-domination, that is, self-instrumentalization. If the autocratic-self fostered by this rationality was able to turn desire into the will to power, the question that seems to be necessary to articulate, as a contribution of psychoanalysis to the field of politics, concerns the point of contact between this self-interested self of current societies and the subject of desire, and, from this unravelling, offer forms of resistance to the monopoly of subjectivities in neoliberalism.
Clinical-Institutional Effects of an Art Workshop for Individuals with Psychotic Disorders in a Therapeutic Residential Service
After the Psychiatric Reform, art became a widely disseminated resource in mental health. In this study it appears in the form of artistic workshops with psychotic patients in a facility - Therapeutic Residential Services - located in the city of Fortaleza-CE. Such equipment aims to deal with the challenge of inhabiting the city, and living in society for people who are prevented from this right due to long periods of institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. Given this, this study aimed to investigate the institutional and clinical effects of holding artistic workshops in a Therapeutic Residential Service, articulating enclosure and its possible re-enactments. This is qualitative research of empirical nature with a psychoanalytic bias carried out from December 2020 to August 2021. The residents of the Therapeutic Residential Service went through a process of subjective appropriation of the house, which made them turn inward. In the impossibility of the Outside, they returned to the Inside. Through these experiences with art, they were able to (re)enact a reality that did not exist before. It is concluded that the group with psychotic patients has its own functioning that requires a careful look from the researcher in order not to fall into a neurotic orthopaedics of the psychotic subject.
Essay on Totalitarianism and Language - Psychoanalytic Approaches
The present work, carried out in the format of a psychoanalytic essay, seeks to establish similarities between the discourse articulated by the extreme right, especially regarding its totalitarian, instrumental and purifying aspects, and the construction of narratives based on the reduction of language to a two-dimensional condition, flat, perverted and reduced to its information function. Extreme discourse was investigated through its manifestations such as hatred, xenophobia, racism, machismo, exclusion and violence in its various nuances, demonstrating the impasses created to produce questions, rupture of certainties and the possibility of thought from the plurality of points of view. It was concluded that in a world organized by binary codes as a structure governed by computer combinations of 0 - 1, with no possibility for contradictions, metaphors, mistakes or openings, there is a denial of what we know as being of the unconscious order. A space supposedly without holes or debris. In this sense, we then perceive a particular rapprochement between this language, which operates as blocks of meaning, the discourses of the growing extreme right wave and a social perversity present in a context eager for performances and results.
Emotions in Bilingualism: Focus on Bilingual Identity in the Therapeutic Process
In bilingualism, differences in the dynamics of social relationships and personal identity become apparent. Considering that each spoken language can produce different identity traits, resulting in diverse forms of verbal expression, it is postulated that the use of bilingualism in psychotherapy can be a potentially relevant resource. This study aims to examine how bilingualism and the emotional experience associated with this phenomenon manifest in people's lives and how they interfere with the individual's identity and the expression of their emotions. It was used a questionnaire answered by 130 participants (f = 102; m = 28), with an average age of 24.67 years (SD = 8.66). Descriptive quantitative data analysis and thematic analysis of responses were conducted. Most participants reported feeling a change in their identity when speaking another language. They recognize the use of bilingualism in therapy as advantageous since there are words in another language that can better express feelings and allow for emotional distance that can help when talking about difficult topics. It is discussed that bilingualism can be an important therapeutic resource, despite being rarely explored in psychotherapy due to therapists' and patients' lack of awareness of this resource.
What contradictions? About Piaget, Vigotski and Marx
The text discusses the problem of contradiction by examining the work of three thinkers: Piaget, Vigotski, and Marx. In Piaget, contradiction is synonymous with opposition, fitting within the framework of genetic epistemology. In Vigotski, however, contradiction is a dialectical category and a driving force that propels the world and energizes the individual, leading him to a new conception of development. Unlike Piaget, for Vigotski, development is not a linear and genetic process but a complex dialectical process. In this sense, Lucien Sève highlights Marx's influence on Vigotski's thought, emphasizing the shift made by the German thinker from idealist philosophy. He also identifies why Marxian thought is not a kind of universal devoid of psychological contributions, nor an abstract system of absolute truths in the traditional sense, but rather a theoretical framework with categorical determinations and connections that emerge from the very subject matter. Through an analysis of these three authors' texts, Sève provides highly original contributions on the convergences and divergences between them, addressing a contemporary topic that is still underexplored.
The Cybernetic Psychoanalysis by Lawrence Kubie: The First Forays into the Concept of Feedback
The cybernetics movement was composed of a highly heterogeneous group of scientists and intellectuals who convened periodically during a few years in the 1940s and 1950s, aiming to develop a shared paradigm to elucidate the functioning of both machines and biological organisms. Despite its relatively brief existence, cybernetics served as a catalyst for numerous scientific and intellectual pursuits throughout the 20th century, including the epistemological reevaluation of certain psychoanalytic concepts. However, the impact of cybernetics on psychoanalysis remains underexplored and underpublished in Brazil. For instance, few researchers are aware of the involvement of a psychoanalyst in the cybernetic movement. Consequently, our goal is to delineate how psychoanalyst Lawrence Kubie, an active participant in the movement, explored connections between psychoanalysis and cybernetic terminology. His primary endeavor involved interpreting pathological repetition through concepts such as feedback and reverberant circuits, elucidating it in a "machinic" manner.
Ethical Principles Disrespected by Psychologists Within the Scope of the Regional Psychology Council of Paraná (1980-2020)
This article presents a characterization of the ethical principles disrespected by psychologists within the scope of the Regional Psychology Council of Paraná (CRP-PR), Brazil, based on complaints received between 1980 and 2020. Five hundred seventy-six ethical processes covering six hundred fifty-three complaints served as sources, predominantly presented by clients and patients (or family members) of Psychology services, followed by the Psychology Council (ex-officio complaints). On ethical processes whose investigation resulted in a penalty for the person reported, the frequency of items related to "Dignity and Human Rights" and "Unrecognized or unregulated practices" occupied the top of the list of most disrespected. In the third position appear principles linked to "Preparation of documents," "Malpractice, imprudence or negligence," and "Contract, fees and information about service." Clinical Psychology is the area that concentrates almost half of the complaints in the period studied, followed by the areas of Psychological Assessment (proportionally more penalized than the others) and Legal Psychology. It is suggested that educational institutions and professional councils plan more assertive actions to qualify professionals and monitor the professional activity carried out in these priority areas to better qualify the Psychology practice in Brazil.
Among psychoanalytic references, some remain less popular than others. As an example to that is Karen Horney and her extensive contributions better known among theories of personality and feminism than in psychoanalysis, even though it was the field to which she had dedicated her professional career. This article aims to promote the work of Karen Horney, mainly based on biographical information and exposition of her theoretical work through authorial writings and commentators. Starting from disagreements and reviews of Sigmund Freud's work, her thought acted as a precursor of psychoanalysis in the United States and as propositions about female sexuality that break with patriarchal paradigms. This second point is also elucidated in her biography, as an intellectual woman born in the 19th century, when belonging in an academic career became a challenge due to the scarce presence of women in university environments, intensified by her criticisms made to parts of the theory about sexual roles of the prestigious Freud and his followers. Thus, learning about Horney's trajectory and legacy, in addition to being useful from the point of view of the history of women in science, also raises reflections on the epistemological directions for psychoanalysis.
Geraldo Servo (1930-2001) and the Professionalization of Psychology in Brazil
Researching biographies is very useful for understanding the historical constitution of Psychology. This paper constructs a biography of the Brazilian psychologist Geraldo Servo (1930-2001) as an example of the professionalization of Psychology during the last century. The documents analyzed were provided by Servo's family and collected at the Centro Salesiano de Documentação e Pesquisa, at the Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa em História da Psicologia and at the Sistema de Informações do Arquivo Nacional. The documental analysis systematizes Geraldo Servo's biographical trajectory into three periods: his first contacts with psychological disciplines in Brazilian and Italian Catholic institutes (1947-1958); psychological practices at the Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy, professional registration, and training periods in European countries (1958-1969); and. political participation in professional entities and his work as a freelance professional (1969-1999). This research concludes that Geraldo Servo's biography exemplifies: (a) the action of the Catholic Church to circulate Psychology projects applied to educational themes; (b) the process of interiorization of Brazilian Psychology through university teaching and the creation of specialized institutes; and (c) the role of academic-professional entities for regulated professional practice. This study aims to contribute to the historiography of Psychology in Brazil.