Capacitismo, corpo e fenomenologia: caminhos para uma Psicologia “Aleijada”

Abstract

To understand Psychology and its practice through an ethical-political-social foundation is to celebrate a science committed to fighting oppression and violation of Human Rights. In the past six decades, Psychology has done little to confront the normal-abnormal phenomenon regarding the so-called “deficient” bodies, often used in a way to impose control over these bodies. In this perspective, it is imperative to question the hegemony of a Psychology built on the ideal-body normative, that, as such, reflects and maintains a discourse that both victimizes and oppresses. Thus, we resort on some reflections from Philosophy, as the mother of all sciences, to conceive a new perspective of the Psychology know-how. Hence we have revisited the formal indicatives of Philosopher Martin Heidegger in dialogue with the post-structuralist Crip Theory, to indicate new paths for the Psychological Science and its practice, in efforts to build a “Crippled” Psychology.