REFLECTIONS ON THE ETHICAL-POLITICAL COMMITMENT OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PRACTISE TO SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

This theoretical-conceptual article aims to reflect on the psychologist's clinical practice as an instrument of social transformation. It takes a look at the work of the clinical psychologist in dialogue with socio-historical Social Psychology, Liberation Psychology and decolonial studies. Its justification is given in the sense of supplying the lack of articulations and reflections on the clinical and social dimensions. To this end, a brief journey through the history of psychology is presented, which, seeking its scientific validation, adopted theories and methods focused on the individual, disregarding the social issues that cross him. From the historical-dialectical method, on which the studied theoretical frameworks are based, clinical praxis emerges as a possibility of mediation between the subject and society, in which the psychologistassumes the role of mediator of a transformation that is singular and, at the same time, collective. The ethical-political commitment of the psychologist in combating the injustices that oppress and make the subjects sick, appears as a way to overcome thebiomedical-positivist model, guiding towards a critical clinical praxis and aware of the strength of social crossings in people's singularities. As well as the impact of its work on the transformation of reality.