Whiteness, racism and clinical psychology critiques for the construction of an anti-racist clinic
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The present work intends to make whiteness seen as an invisible structure of hierarchization and oppression of relationships and to outline new possibilities by bringing Psychology closer to an anti-racist clinical practice. Two fundamental axes cross this clinical practice, in our view: (1) thinking of a socially contextualized practice, that is, a practice that brings with it the social context and (2) intersectionality. Anti-black racism, an elaboration made by whiteness, has long been known to cause illness, intense suffering and death. It takes a critical look at the epistemological foundations that constitute Brazilian Psychology and, in particular, clinical psychology, in order to establish an ethical commitment towards an anti-racist psychology/clinic that fights racism and all forms of oppression of historically excluded populations.
Keywords: psychology, anti-racist clinic, whiteness, coping, intersectionality.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright Statement
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0 which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publishing in institutional repository or book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are allowed and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (eg in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this may lead to productive changes as well as increase impact and citation of published work (See The Effect of Free Access).