Abstract

PAULA, Larissa Ferreira Otoni de  and  SOARES, Laura Cristina Eiras Coelho. Between Advances, Setbacks, and Resistance: In(ter)disciplinary Analysis in the Light of Special Testimonies. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2025, vol.45, e273067.  Epub Apr 28, 2025. ISSN 1414-9893.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-3703003273067.

The in(ter)disciplinarity between psychology and law is neither recent nor linear, occurring along this mis(encounter) advances, setbacks, and resistances. This study begins from special testimonies (ST) to discuss the possibilities and impossibilities of psychology and in(ter)disciplinarity in them. A qualitative methodology was used with semi-structured interviews with psychologists who work with ST in several brazilian courts. The data were treated by thematic content analysis in the light of the legal social psychology framework. Results show two challenges for legal psychology: expanding interventions from psychology associated with or tangent to ST and reaffirming in(ter)disciplinarity in its horizontal character, prohibiting the confusion of respect for institutional hierarchy with technical submission. Thus, ST shows the instrumental aspect law tries to provide to the sciences with which it dialogues, using or demanding aspects from psychology that it needs for the progress of the process. The active and reflective performance of psychology toward the method, if carried out with professional autonomy, can displace work, focusing on subjects rather than the process. The construction of institutional instruments and the articulation of psychology as a science and a profession become fundamental to address these demands toward dialogue instead of reproducing historical aspects of hierarchy between the aforementioned sciences.

Keywords : Legal Psychology; Special Testimonial; Interdisciplinarity; Professional Autonomy.

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