Expanding gaps and possibilities in continuing education in Psychology

Abstract

Recognizing the effects of the construction of hegemonic practice in Psychology is to refer to the history of diffusion of cartesian science and how it presents itself in Brazilian territory in Psychology formation. We highlight deficient, uncritical, and colonizing professional formation. We ask ourselves: what can we, psychologists working in the clinical field, do with our ongoing formation? The objective of this article is to present the group and authorial work constructed through decolonial and intersectional lenses that has been developed with psychotherapists with politics and affect as main sensitizers for the construction of professional practice. We assume intersectionality as an analytical and political concept-tool that emphasizes the coalition of oppressive structures operationalized by markers of race, gender, and class. We also recognize the history of capturing the debate about emotions, their devaluation face of the supremacy of reason, as a central aspect that could support the pillars of capitalist society, namely colonization and patriarchy. The Intervisões Clínicas - Afeto & Política project is an authorial initiative by Coletiva Olhares, whose interest, based on group meetings with psychotherapists, is to reflect on practice from intersectional and decolonial perspectives. The online and synchronous meetings are divided into three moments: Artistic warm-up, Reference Affectation and Departure Experience. These are meetings in which participants reflect on their own places in the world, their listening, and their interventions in a horizontal and critical way.