Abstract:
This essay intends to recover the paths of the relationship between Psychology and the Rights Policy, through a bibliographical and documentary research. The first one seeks to recover the historical processes of this relationship, rescuing the practices of Psychology during the period of the dictatorship up to know. The second aims to find elements of this course and to reveal how the relationship between Psychology and the Rights Policy in our time has been given. From the investigations, it is observed that Psychology served and went hand in hand with the military dictatorship, contributing with the application of tests and practices of torture to the political prisoners. Although this practice was hegemonic in that period, Psychology was a conflictive field of political-ideological knowledge, actions and positions, and, with the country's democratization processes, it also reoriented and reinvented itself, assuming as a guide an ethical and political commitment with the construction of a more just and egalitarian society and with the Rights Policy. Despite Psychology preserves this ethical and political commitment, it is possible to identify inheritances left by the dictatorship, such as rights violations in institutions and entities in which Psychology professionals act and contribute to such violations, as well as the support by some psychologists to projects that are divergent from the Rights Policy, such as the supposed “gay conversion therapy”.
Keywords:
Psychology; Human Rights; Civil-Military Dictatorship