Medicalização no creas: Práticas de governo psicologizantes em análise.

Abstract

This thesis discusses medicalizing and psychologizing practices in the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), especially in the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS). It is a historical-genealogical study of documentary and bibliographic nature whose sources are: a) documents produced by workers from CREAS placed in Tomé-Açu city, Pará, b) interview with psychologist of that unity, c) as well as the programs and services proposed by the public political, listed in the following official documents: Social Assistance Organic Law (LOAS), the National Social Assistance Political (PNAS), the National Classification of Social Assistance Services, Technical Guidelines: Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance and the Basic Operational Standard for Human Resources (NOB-RH/SUAS). It was questioned as a research problem: What are the practices of knowledge, power and subjectivation that Psychology operates in CREAS? How? And what are the effects? Thus, the framing of the subject “psi” was investigated through the genealogical analysis of Psychology as a science of the individual, which privileges normalized and internalized subjectivity, in addition to its approximations with medical knowledge. The intercessions of the medicalization process with psychologization were also discussed; The institutionalization process of Social Assistance in Brazil and the instituting, instituted, transversal, self-management and restitution aspects that make up the interventions in CREAS. There was also a debate on the crossings and reproduction of personal and producing of confessional practices to Psychology under the truth regime and the familist focus on the accountability of assisted demands related to different rights violations. The following were listed as Analyzers: Socio-Family Matrix, Subject and Public served, Work Management, Social Assistance Surveillance, Territory, Risk and Social Vulnerability and the governmentality strategies in CREAS and the articulations with the security and control devices were analyzed. Another problematized issue was the psi knowledge as producers of subjectivation modes based on the entrepreneur ship of the self from the neoliberal art of governing, as well as the debate about the colonialities of power, being, gender, old men, with emphasis on the political participation of women in SUAS. And the contributions of decolonial feminism were also mapped with the intersectionalities of gender, race/ethnicity and class to decolonize psychology and break with the idea of an “expert” knowledge. Finally, we bet on micro and macro political articulations at CREAS and the meeting as a creator power, demedicalizing and depsychologizing.