PATTO, Maria Helena Souza. Managers and watchdogs: psychology and violence. []. , 17, 2, pp.405-415. ISSN 1413-389X.

Based on examples of professional practices by psychologists working with school education, and having as background the production of knowledge in societies grounded in democratic principles, but marked by deep and congenital social inequalities, the text deals with the Humanities adhering to the establishment by means of theories, concepts and professional practices that participate in the justification of inequality and several forms of violence against citizenship as they naturalize man and society.

: Psychology and violence; Humanities and ideology; Power relations.

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