Abstract
The article deals with the practices of the Amerindian Support Network – linked to the Department of Experimental Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo – in the period from 2015 to 2017, aiming at discussing the impacts of changes in procedures for visiting the communities for training psychology students. The exposure of the body of the psychologist in training to ritualized contexts from different cultural patterns, in contrast to the students’ original culture, gives rise to unease and disquieting feelings that characterize the relationship with alterity. As tools for the elaboration of this mode of relation, the Guarani from the communities we visited proposed to us dialogues in which the priority was to establish an adequate attunement to the attunement of the other. This attunement is a preliminary condition to discuss and forward projects that deals with challenging issues related to situations of psychosocial vulnerabilities the focused communities face.
Alterity; Dialogicity; Intersubjectivity; Attunement; Mbya Guarani