Abstract

MEDEIROS, Roberto Henrique Amorim de; GUARNIERI, Leonardo Veiga  and  LIMA, Theo Soares de. Territory clinics: A methodological proposal for research and collective practices. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.2, pp. 243-267. ISSN 0103-5665.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0034n02A02.

Individual suffering and collective discomfort have the structure of a narrative. The rapid process of urbanization in Brazil resulted in the deterioration of living conditions, social relations and the expectation of access to amenities that cities predicted. Such is the problematic scenario that mobilized the structuring of the ethical and epistemological bases, and of practical principles for a new clinic. Drifting, listening and writing, with the intent of mapping, constitute the foundations of a research procedure and collective practices conceptually called territory clinics. This article presents the result of the experience of university research and extension projects that have built, over five years, the foundations of a clinic that starts from the concept of territory as relation and production, is based on listening to narratives, and operates structurally from the three aforementioned elements. In the end, it questions the epistemology of the clinical proposal and locates the plurality of practices and fields in which it can operate, in addition to the ethical provision of being aware of the heterogeneity that lies in the junction of technical-scientific knowledge with the narratives of spaces, individuals and groups.

Keywords : clinic; territory; drift; listening; writing.

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