Abstract
This text is the result of studies and discussions started in 2012 and the possibility of thinking the dialogue between Psychology and spirituality-care practices of African array. Bringing in the context of the black resistance, the values that appear in the knowledge of the terreiros meeting place, welcome, ancestry, community and the place of such knowledge throughout the history of black resistance in Brazil. Besides presenting some references, the text is based on discussions with students of Psychology and on visits to some terreiros de Candomblé. The purpose of the text is to indicate the importance of psychologists into contact with some knowledge of non-Western traditions, present in a significant part of the Brazilian population. Whereas Psychology and religions of African array are concerned with the issues of subjectivity, but also with the modes of care and to guarantee the right to diversity of lifestyles, this dialogue can mean a change of epistemic conditions for professional training and the work of psychology. The perspective presented by the knowledge of the population of terreiro and connection to the historical struggles of black people, could compose in the performance the psychologists with the Brazilian population. That is where the complaint related to the blackening of Psychology makes sense. It is in this sense, with the advances that Psychology can do in Brazil, that the text develops.
Religions of African Array; Spirituality; Psychology
Fonte: Arquivo pessoal.