Abstract

ADRIAO, Karla Galvão; NOGUEIRA, Conceição; TONELI, Maria Juracy Filgueiras  and  MORAES, Maristela de Melo. Ethics, Racism, and Contracolonial Experiences in Psychology Work in Brazil. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2025, vol.45, e274427.  Epub May 12, 2025. ISSN 1414-9893.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-3703003274427.

This study the descriptive, prescriptive, and philosophical dimensions of ethics in psychology based on the debate on racism in the exercise of the profession in Brazil. We will dialogue with productions of technical and theoretical-conceptual reference by the council system that is linked to the Federal Council of Psychology to discuss the macro- and micropolitical dimensions of this field regarding ethics. From a macro point of view, geopolitically in the Americas, the impacts of colonization continue to reverberate in Brazil around fallacies and reiterations: the myth of racial democracy, the construction of the idea of race, with white people as superior and legitimate and the consequent production of a modern identity rooted in the capitalist and neoliberal ideals of society that separate humans and non-humans. The race debate will be treated from its injunction to the categories of class, gender, and sexuality since treating them separately reify exclusions and violence. We will discuss micropolitics from the reverberations of the macro dimensions in the psychic suffering of Black (Black and Brown) and Indigenous people, bringing concepts of trauma and ideals of whiteness, the colonial wound, memory, and oblivion. The whole debate will include the arts as a language that causes gaps in the colonial logic. This dialogue will be based on our experience as white women of European descent, bearing in mind that it is impossible to dismantle the racist logic without studying the defense devices of the whiteness ego.

Keywords : Ethic; Racism; Contracolonialities; Arts; Psychology.

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