Ethical-political health: a regulatory idea of social psychology praxis in the SUAS

Abstract

This study describes the concept of ethical-political-health and its philosophical and theoretical bases, defending its relevance as a regulatory idea of psychosocial action in the Brazilian Unified Social Assistance System (Suas), and reflecting that this public policy works with health in its citizen dimension, which means considering the power of individual and collective struggle for autonomy. This concept was developed based on research on the experience of ethical-political -suffering (Sawaia, 2001) in different contexts of perverse inclusion following Spinoza’s philosophy and Vygotsky’s socio-historical theory and interacting with contemporary researchers who use the following references: Sawaia, Chauí, Bove, and Deleuze. The conclusion provides guidance for psychosocial practice in Suas, such as: no social rights exist without active individuals and a powerful collective; replacing the centrality of the family with territoriality, taking the experiences of joy, the feeling of common, and the fight against the bureaucratization of desensitized bodies seriously.