Sections

Social Psychology

This section covers themes that address the relationship between psychological phenomena and processes in relation to the social, as well as the socio-institutional and cultural practices in which they manifest and are engendered. It includes: perspectives from the global south, American and emerging European perspectives; contemporary epistemological, anthropological, and historical conceptions and discussions in social psychology; connections between social psychology and politics, culture, and art; and the insertion of social psychology in institutions, social movements, and territories.

Developmental Psychology

The section covers processes of change and continuity across the life course, understanding human development as the result of the dynamic interaction among biological, psychological, and social factors. Its themes aim to explain developmental trajectories, considering historical contexts, educational, cultural, political, and institutional processes, as well as the diversity of experiences and social markers that shape people’s lives.

Clinical Psychology

This section covers to the field of clinical practice and psychotherapies, including: different modalities of psychological clinical practice; expanded clinical care; psychotherapies and care practices; access to health services; clinical practice in diverse social, institutional, and community contexts; psychological treatment and intervention; clinical approaches with an ethical-political focus; and psychological care practices in situations of disasters, crises, and emergencies.

Psychoanalysis

This section covers topics in the theoretical, clinical, and cultural fields of psychoanalysis, in dialogue with the frameworks of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and different clinical matrices of the psychoanalytic movement. It includes: psychoanalytic foundations and concepts; the specificity of psychoanalytic practice and its distinction from other psychotherapeutic practices; the training of the analyst; the insertion of psychoanalysis in institutions and public mental health policies; the interface of psychoanalysis with collectives and social movements; the articulations between psychoanalysis and politics, culture, and art; and the history of psychoanalysis, including its conditions of transmission and institutional disputes.

Clio-Psyché

This section covers historical, historiographical, and epistemological studies on "psy" knowledge (Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry) in its multiple dimensions. It includes: the history of "psy" knowledge in general, with particular attention to Brazil and Latin America; the constitution and transformation of psychological objects, theories, schools of thought and practices over time; the history of institutions, journals, and remarkable figures in the trajectory of psy knowledge, whether recognized as founding forces in the field or rendered invisible by historiography; the relationships between psy knowledge and social, political, and cultural contexts; and the epistemological and genealogical conditions for the production and circulation of psychological knowledge. The section welcomes diverse historiographical approaches.