A Inserção da psicologia em contextos indígenas: por uma práxis comprometida ética e politicamente.

Abstract

This work aims to understand how the insertion of Psychology happened in work contexts with indigenous populations, and in which way it can contribute with these populations, in an emancipatory perspective. In order to identify the roots of the problems faced by indigenous people, that many times arrive at the Psychologist with individual suffering demands, we present historical aspects of the inter-ethnic contact between the indigenous populations and the European invaders and their pernicious diseases. We also address the process of construction of Brazilian State Public Policies directed to indigenous populations. These populations were constituted, from the decade of 1990, as an activity field of Psychologists together with the indigenous populations. And, finally, we reflect about the possibilities and limitations of Psychology, science and profession, along the indigenous people, highlighting the ethical and political commitment of Psychologists with the social emancipation of indigenous populations. This is a bibliographic research, descriptive in what regards the ends, and qualitative in approach. We hope this study can contribute to the overcoming of all forms of ethnic and cultural discrimination related to indigenous populations, as well as for the critical reflection about the relationship the Brazilian State keeps with these populations. In addition to this, we hope to help strengthen the psychology production field related to the theme and, with this purpose, to promote the inclusion of this theme in the political ideary of Brazilian Psychology.