A construção da abordagem de cada psicólogo: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

Psychology is divided in different systems, each a tradition with its own postulates, assumptions, methodology, themes and ethics.This division, not being purely theoretical, is built into the institutionalisation of psychology, shaping career paths and identities within this field.For the individual psychologist, positioning herself in relation to those dividing lines is a practical imposition.But the experience of what those divisions are, what they represent, and how such choices are made, varies greatly from one psychologist to another, and we are not fully self-conscious of the process.In this qualitative research, developed in the framework of semiotic cultural constructivism, we aimed at investigating the following four interconnected questions: what's the relationship that acting psychologists have to the theoretical landscape of psychology?How do they position themselves across theoretical lines?How is this choice related to their practice?Does this choice affect the way they see themselves as psychologists, and vice-versa?Interviews were conducted with two acting psychologists about their own experiences, creating three axes of analysis to what they brought, in here named as "drawing the lines", "directioning" and "negotiation".From this, in the final part, divided in eight reflective essays, it's proposed a few processes and dimensions to conceptualise our qualitative understanding of how psychologists build their own theoretical positioning within psychology, as a process that happens both in individual and collective dimensions, considering what our standpoint implicates for the learning of psychology, the institutionalisation, the theoretical negotiation of psychology, and the methodology in such studies.

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