Abstract

LOPES, Eliana Maria; FERREIRA, Clarice Regina Catelan  and  FRIEDRICH, Douglas Renan. Psychology and Ruralities: paths for a transforming psychological practice. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.1, pp.225-245.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v8.n1.12.

This article intends to build a series of relevant discussions on the psychologist’s role in the rural context. This professional possesses, most of the time, an academic background based on an urban worldview. For that, a literature review was conducted in order to present data on how psychology works with rural populations. In Brazil, the work of CRAS (Social Assistance Reference Center) features among the public policies as the main channel through which psychology arrives in the Brazilian countryside. Reflections were also raised on the necessary knowledge psychology needs, so it can present a critical and relevant practice when inserted in the rural reality. Armed with the assumptions of an eminently urban psychological science, this professional might undertake a mere theoretical transposition. Without proper pondering and being built from our society’s historical foundation, psychology may end up being a mere prejudice and blame repeater, thus, maintaining the naturalization state of the social problems. This work illustrates the worldview of the Cultural-historical Psychology, making clear the necessity of an ethical commitment and the usage of a proper epistemology to the rural area, one that is capable of seeing the problems in this population’s real life, also being capable of collectively managing the ways for social transformation.

Keywords : Ruralities; Psychology; Cultural-Historical Psychology.

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