Dispositivo-formação em psicologia: processos medicalizantes, silenciamentos, diferenças

Abstract

The finality of this research was to analyze how the training-device in psychology is constituted from documents that engender the relations of knowledge, power and subjectivation, inciting medical practices. We deploy this goal in the following guiding questions: What conditions of possibilities allowed the construction of the Pedagogical Political Project of the Psychology Course of the Federal University of Pará of the year 2010 in order to operate medical practices? By means of which devices of power-knowledge do these practices materialize as a biopower in the formation of the psychologist? What circulating forces operate through the project and in the project composing knowledge presented as important for the practice of the profession of psychologist, researcher and professor in psychology? How can the production of the difference be evident in this curriculum proposal of 2010 as resistance to the medicalization processes? This thesis was based on the consideration that insofar as the curriculum is a multiplicity, it is asserted that among the various elements that compose it and make it work there are medicalizing elements in discursive differences, being produced by this curriculum of UFPA psychology, and these medicalizing practices function as a reductive control filter in the processes of difference production practices. This curriculum is therefore apprehended as a strategy of know-power-subjectivation that sets in motion a training device evidencing a medicalizing logic within the mechanism of biopower, since both resources, tactics, strategies, knowledge that are producers are triggered of subjectivation modes of this subject that is intended to form, as well as at broader levels of government of the population, inserting the analysis of the psychologist's formation within the governmentality strategies underlined by the education policies developed in Brazil. The theoretical-methodological framework used to examine these objectives was focused on the theoretical and archaeological production of the French thinker Michel Foucault, using as main analytical operators the concepts of: device, knowledge, power, governmentality, norm, medicalization. In the curriculum, we align this reference to curricular studies that take this same perspective as analytical trigger, as found in the authors: Veiga-Neto, Silvio Gallo, Sandra Corazza, Tomaz Tadeu and Thomas Popkewitz. The study was based on documentary analysis coming from public domain documents and documents produced from conversational wheels and individual interviews. It is concluded that the formation in psychology acting in the configuration of a device has its sedimentation points, but also places of fractures. In this way reverberates in the formation in psychology of the UFPA, heterogeneous elements that during the history of the formation of the psychologies in Brazil punctuated and updated medical practices. In the multiplicity of power relations these practices are also questioned, extending the focus of medical practices to the practices of psychology within the field of governmentalities. However, one of the reducing effects of the processes of difference in this formation in the UFPA has been seen in the little incidence given to the regional aspects, which could bring the specificity of the knowledge production to be developed in the Amazon Region.