Peripheral Subjectivities and the challenges for Decolonizing Psychological Clinic

Can psychological clinic listen to peripheral subjectivities? From this problematic, this theoretical study reflects on the relationship between psychological clinics and peripheral subjectivities-lives that are removed from the various centers: political, social, economic, racial-ethnic, gender and sexualities, etc. Marked by exclusion, oppression, and precariousness, peripheral subjectivities are seen as products of colonization processes that are reiterated by more sophisticated strategies, going beyond the biological body and reaching the subjectivation processes in its multiple facets. Simultaneously, they are seen as subjects, whose desubjectivation processes of this terrifying existential territory production express critical and inventive resistances that outline a peri-space not as a place of subjection, but of politicization of the body and affirmation of life. The study argues in favor of dismantling theoretical-methodological fixity and inventing a clinic rooted on experimentation of the contexts and lives it proposes to care for, engendering a double decolonization: of clinical psychology still laden with colonizing discourses and practices and of subjectivities that produce and are products of oppression and exclusion.

Keywords:
Clinic; Colonization; Peripheral Subjectivities; Decolonization