Abstract:
This essay problematizes the path of Brazilian Psychology in mental health policies based on a cartographic perspective of evaluating its displacements and analyzing four plateaus: Community Psychology, the health movement, the anti-asylum struggle, and new social pacts. In general, the last five decades have seen a tendency toward expanding Psychology into new scenarios of action in mental health, which has been accompanied by an update of conceptual references and intervention in the clinical field and by a journey in the frontier and neighborhood of other fields of knowledge and various social struggles based on scarcely used or even unknown trails. The analysis of this trajectory highlighted a certain tension between multiplicity and stratification in the way Psychology operates to the extent that disruptive forms coexist with professional sedentary lifestyle and preserve clichés, even in new spaces. On the other hand, the field finds itself under current tension from new demands, such as intersectionality and the climate emergency, which necessitate new alliances and collective elaborations. Therefore, it is noteworthy that the aforementioned expansion of Psychology in mental health will, rather occurring by the consolidation of legislation, require making the multiple in effervescence in the current context thinkable, audible, and visible. Once again, we live in times of rediscovering politics and insurgent movements.
Keywords:
Psychology; Mental Health; Social Movements