Psychology in Motion: provocations and alliances between psychology and MST for comprehensive mental health care in the countryside
Political psychology, MST, mental health, rural population, decoloniality.
Brazilian psychology is eminently urban, with its origins embedded in European sources and marked by colonial parameters that do not reach the complexity of our reality. Its insertion in the rural context is recent and despite advances, the work of psychologists is still based on the hegemonic model, presenting problems and challenges to be overcome for comprehensive mental health care in the countryside. The present study is a qualitative research and its methodological reference is the notion of non-extractive collaborative methodologies. The general objective of the research is to analyze the contributions of the MST Mental Health Network to psychology and, more specifically, to identify the practices offered by the Network, understanding the challenges of psychology for comprehensive mental health care in the field. For this, the present research will use observational and interactive instruments: group process, field diary and narrative interviews. The study is proposed in five stages: 1) bibliographic survey and systematic review; 2) presentation of the research project to the MST Mental Health Network; 3) group processes and narrative interviews; 4) analysis of research processes; 5) debate of the results and production of new paths, which will be developed from the meeting and dialogue with the collective of 20 psychologists active in the Network. An exercise of inversion of the look is proposed, in the sense of thinking about how the alliance with social movements and rural populations can contribute to a decolonial, politically territorialized and popular psychology, contributing to the solidification of critical and mental health care practices. contextualized in the field, as recommended by the PNSIPCFA.