Resumen

VASQUEZ, Gislayne Cristina Figueiredo. Psychology in rural areas: the land reform settlements and the settled women. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2009, vol.29, n.4, pp. 856-867. ISSN 1414-9893.

The purpose of this article is to describe the participation of the author in the ITESP Foundation (Institute of Land of the State of São Paulo - Brazil), dealing with groups of women, who are landless settlers. Weekly meetings were held during a period of 18 months. Each meeting lasted two hours and they were open to all who were willing to participate. The methods applied at the meetings were based on Pichon- Rivière and Bleger’s theories on group work. It was also applied a technique called “club of wisdoms”, used by Brazilian therapists when working with psychotic patients. Many themes and questions were brought up to discussion, all of them dealt with their reality in the settlements. Positive results were observed, for among the women there was an increase of self-esteem and autonomy as well as in their capacity of organization. On the other hand, in these rural areas, there is a lack of knowledge of what Psychology is, and this fact hinders the job. The article concludes with some considerations on the role of psychology in rural areas, and makes evident the need to give special attention to the rural man and woman and to their subjectivity.

Palabras clave : Social psychology; Rural area; Landless settlements; Settled women.

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