Abstract

MACEDO, Alice Costa; BAIRRAO, José Francisco Miguel Henriques; MESTRINER, Soraya Fernandes  and  MESTRINER JUNIOR, Wilson. Meeting the Other in the vertigo of the “me”: the ethnopsychologist in the indigenous health groups. Rev. SPAGESP [online]. 2011, vol.12, n.2, pp.85-96. ISSN 1677-2970.

The Universidade de São Paulo, in partnership with the Universidade Federal de São Paulo and the Ministry of Health, created the project Huka-Katu, which offers a trainee program and a subject to their students of the undergraduation course in Dentistry that are systematized in two moments: one is preparatory, while the other is a inclusion in the indigenous park called Parque Indígena do Xingu. Alongside with an Ethnopsychology researcher from University of São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP) in the project, a new partnership has been established, aiming to bring contributions from the Psychoanalytical and Ethnopsychological studies. The subjective impact caused by the inclusion in a distinctly different cultural reality can be highly disturbing. In the experience record, based on the registers of the group meetings and the classes taken, it is discussed whether inclusion of Ethnopsychology professionals in groups is convenient, aiming to prepare the dentist and the health professional in general to intercultural meetings. Not only do the meetings put them in contact with the other one, but also confronted with themselves.

Keywords : Ethnopsychology; Psychoanalysis; Public health; Indigenous population.

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