Abstract

SARAIVA, Luís Fernando de Oliveira; PINEDA, Dailza  and  GOLDSTEIN, Thaís Seltzer. Biopower, necropolitics and the offer of remote psychological services in times of pandemics. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.51, pp. 509-521. ISSN 2175-1390.

In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the offer of remote psychological services seem to have increased, both individual, collective and institutional initiatives, aiming at providing care and attention to the effects produced by the current situation. In this context, this article aims to understand logics present in the organization and offer of these services, seeking to capture medicalizing and depoliticizing forces, comparing possible effects on people's care. Therefore, it carries out a bibliographical survey of the production of Brazilian Psychology on the pandemic and the analysis of the Foucaultian discourse found in nine psychological services presentations that emerged at that time, considering their missions, objectives, target audiences and conceptions about the pandemic that underpin them. It is noticed that the majority of the services consider the pandemic a biological event, producing suffering and psychological disorders, in order to offer services that seek people's adaptation, disregarding the context and particularities of the conduct of the pandemic in Brazil and relying on values of philanthropism and volunteerism.

Keywords : Psychological care; Pandemic; Medicalization; Biopower; Discourse analysis.

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