Relações entre psicologia e povos indígenas: saberes, políticas públicas e possibilidades de atuação

Abstract

This work seeks to understand how Psychology was inserted in work contexts with indigenous peoples and how it can contribute to these peoples, in a perspective of increasing awareness and dialogue about their realities and challenges based on our own experiences. as students and future psychologists. The objective of this work is to analyze the timeline of public health policies for indigenous peoples in Brazil and observe their historical path to understand the current context, and to know the technical references and political and academic debates capable of conducting the training and work of psychologists together with indigenous peoples towards a significant ethical and political commitment. This is a bibliographical and documentary research with a qualitative approach. The work is divided into four chapters: in the first we present our origin and ethnicity, exposing our experience as a psychology student. In the second, we present an analysis based on documentary research on the history of public policies in the field of health for indigenous peoples. In the third, we build a timeline of events and academic and political debates in Brazil about the relationship between indigenous peoples and psychology, in addition to presenting some materials produced by different institutions, work groups and research groups. Finally, the fourth chapter was inspired by the book “Cartas para o Bem Viver”, published in 2020 and organized by Rafael Xucuru Kariri, where we wrote a letter to our future psychologist colleagues, seeking to reflect the approximation of psychology with indigenous issues in mental health issues. We hope that this work can contribute to overcoming all forms of discrimination, inspiring positive changes and increasing respect and appreciation for all cultures and identities.