Psicologia USP
type: channel
description: To publish original works which may contribute to the knowledge and development of Psychology and related fields, such as theoretical articles and essays emphasizing some classical issues such as Memory, Family, Conscience, Unconscious, and Alterity.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia
language: en
publication name: Psicologia USP
issn: 0103-6564
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items: Moral development according to Carol Gilligan: theory and revisions after “In a Different Voice”
items: Policies of life and normalization: contributions from the perspective of Georges Canguilhem
items: Sublimation by the Self and sublimation into the Self: nuances of the clinic encounter
items: “Parental alienation” in the courts of justice between the analyst discourse and its opposites
items: Psychoanalysis and street people: first service or reoccurrence?
items: “De quebrada em quebrada”, resistance and dissidence: An analysis of identity construction in the poetic narratives of MC Daleste
items: Regulation structures in Freud’s work
items: Teatro Oficina: tragycomediorgy as re-existence
items: Contemporary paradoxes for career guidance and counseling: constructing another approach to another world
items: The Naoki case: a perspective between the drive for mastery and Attachment Theory
items: The social dimension of trauma according to Sándor Ferenczi’s contributions
items: Greenspan’s contributions on affect and transference at pre-representational levels
items: Violence against women, feminism and behavior analysis: A literature review
items: Overcoming the structured family as inclusion of diversity: an experience report
items: Ghostly representations: trauma, affects and psychic representations in the face of Derridean hauntology
items: Risk and protective factors for pro-aggressor and defender rolls in family context
items: Perinatal clinical practice: Psychoanalytic reflections on perinatal mourning
items: Health processes and the COVID-19 pandemic for homeless people
items: Humanity and Animality in the History of Madness
items: Women and alcohol abuse: trajectory of care and monitoring at CAPSad
items: Patterns of Absences in the Life Trajectories of Girls Serving Socio-Educational Custodial Sentences
items: Psychobiological aspects of emotional regulation in alcohol use disorders
items: Healthy aging: impact of health promotion group on social representation of older adults
items: The Psychoanalysis of the Institutional Analysis of Discourse
items: Speaking Place: collaborations for a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial Science
items: Total pain in oncology palliative care: an exploratory study with patients and healthcare providers
items: The legal form in social policies: A Marxist critique of the legal subject and capitalist legal relations
items: From the ontology of labor to the critique of science under capitalism: implications for psychology
items: Attentive listening and Pluriversal reading of a public school in São Paulo: a case study of the school institution
items: “The woman does not exist”. And what about the man?

Moral development according to Carol Gilligan: theory and revisions after “In a Different Voice”
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description: Evidence suggests that contemporary Moral Developmental Psychology seems to have abandoned Carol Gilligan’s theory of moral development. Some issues related to the dissemination of this author’s ideas in Brazil are added to this, denoting that her theory has stagnated over time. This article, therefore, seeks both to present Gilligan’s theory and its epistemological, theoretical and methodological implications, and the revisions that it has undergone over the years. Despite constituting the feminist epistemic critique of Science from the beginning, over time Gilligan asserted her break with the modern paradigm of Science, historically perpetuated in the psychological study of morality. Moral Developmental Psychology, it seems, was not open to Gilligan’s perspective because it questions its own foundations, thus this field seems to resist epistemic revisions that break with its epistemological origins, including Gilligan’s.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: moral development
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subject: Carol Gilligan
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subject: ethics of care
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subject: feminist epistemology
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creator: Matheus Estevão Ferreira da Silva
creator: Leonardo Lemos de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-08-03
publication date: 2026-08-03
starting page: e230053
ending page: e230053
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e230053

Policies of life and normalization: contributions from the perspective of Georges Canguilhem
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description: This article investigates the importance of the notion of human autonomy within the current discussions that medical philosophy conducts regarding health and illness. For this purpose, we analyzed Georges Canguilhem’s theses regarding the normal and the pathological, and their impact on the experiences of health and illness. Likewise, we analyzed the assumptions that expands the field of incidence of biopowers in the medical and psychiatric domain. Given the nature of this examination, the text seeks to deepen the discussion on the notion of autonomy, a cornerstone of Canguilhem’s philosophical study of medicine. Through these steps, the text argues for the articulation of the notion of human autonomy with the medical axiology of Georges Canguilhem.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: health
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subject: disease
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subject: rule
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subject: biopolitics
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subject: creative autonomy
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creator: Daniel Jofré
creator: Alejandro Bilbao
creator: Astrid Mancilla
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-28
publication date: 2026-07-28
starting page: e230131
ending page: e230131
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e230131

Sublimation by the Self and sublimation into the Self: nuances of the clinic encounter
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description: This article discusses the concept of sublimation in its relationship with the instance of the Self and its capacity to agency the transformation promoted by analysis. The central thesis is that there are sublimations by the Self and sublimations into the Self. Besides the classic conception of sublimation as a drive destiny, as proposed by Freud and, later, Laplanche, I introduce the idea of “sublimated self” elaborated by the French psychoanalyst Jean Guillaumin. The objective is to point to sublimation as a phenomenon present in the transference event mediated by the encounter with a primordial otherness, therefore expanding the idea of sublimation linked to socially recognized cultural production. To this end, I present a brief theorization about the formation of the Self and the sublimated material, differentiating sublimation in the repression model and the trauma model, to articulate the concept with that of transference. The final proposal is that observing this nuance helps planning treatment.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: sublimation
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subject: Ego
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subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: transference
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subject: clinic
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creator: Morgana Rech
creator: Joel Birman
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-21
publication date: 2026-07-21
starting page: e230058
ending page: e230058
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e230058

“Parental alienation” in the courts of justice between the analyst discourse and its opposites
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description: This article analyses the discursive positions occupied by agents involved in parental alienation lawsuits and sheds light on psychoanalytic discourse as the opposite of other discourses, reflecting on its (im)possibilities within the judicial arena. This documentary research employed a data processing method of discourse analysis from a Lacanian perspective. Our analyses of the procedural records show that, under the increasing judicialization of private life, the turns of discourse between litigants, legal operators and specialists produce a homogenizing objectification of parental conflict, commonly leading to the erasure of the subject. The power of the analyst’s discourse consists of promoting discursive openings and uniquely repositioning subjects in relation to their family ties. We expect the study to support the production of more critical and skilled practice by psychologists working in the judiciary, transforming crystallized views on the subject of parental alienation and enriching dialogue between psychoanalysis and law.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: judicialization
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subject: parental alienation
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subject: discourse analysis
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subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: law
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creator: Júlia Torres Dias
creator: Cristiane Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-06
publication date: 2026-07-06
starting page: e240039
ending page: e240039
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240039

Psychoanalysis and street people: first service or reoccurrence?
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description: This essay investigates how the initial relationship is built between street people who seek assistance for their demands and social assistance workers. We verified a gap in the literature on this initial care in public services, although studies addressing this relationship and its impasses contribute to changes in the reality of subjects and in the formulation of social policies. To analyze and intervene in the first consultation, we will use Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and the concept of “sensitive moment.” These references allow us to examine important points before, during and after the first appointment, and to propose a work direction that can intervene in the dimension of reoccurrence and build a different horizon of possibilities.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: praxis
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subject: street people
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creator: William Azevedo de Souza
creator: Miriam Debieux Rosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-06
publication date: 2026-07-06
starting page: e240044
ending page: e240044
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240044

“De quebrada em quebrada”, resistance and dissidence: An analysis of identity construction in the poetic narratives of MC Daleste
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description: This study seeks to understand the identity references present in the funk music of MC Daleste (Daniel Pedreira Senna Pellegrine, 1992-2013). Methodologically, we analyze three songs and follow Ricoeur’s “narrative arc”: analysis of the singer’s social context and life (Mimesis I); analysis of the songs (Mimesis II); and connection between life story, current context, and narratives (Mimesis III). Our discussion addresses different aspects of the identification processes of marginalized youth. We conclude that Daniel Pellegrine’s life and work reflect the dynamics of power and domination experienced by marginalized groups in Brazil.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: funk
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subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: youth
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subject: identification
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subject: narrative
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creator: Jullyana Silva Rosa
creator: Priscilla Melo Ribeiro de Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-02
publication date: 2026-07-02
starting page: e233658
ending page: e233658
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e233658

Regulation structures in Freud’s work
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description: This article investigates the indications in Sigmund Freud's texts of an underlying conception of regulation structures, starting from Piaget's consideration about the structures of psychic life. A systematic lexical analysis of Freud’s complete works in German searched for terms such as “Regulierung” and “Kompensation” in psychic contexts. Results evince the implicit presence of of the regulatory structures in the freudian text. These structures appear in the work as intrinsic regulatory mechanisms which operate by resolving internal conflicts, adapting to social demands, and maintaining mental equilibrium. The research shows how regulatory structures are central in Freud’s work and suggests future studies to expand lexical analysis and explore clinical applications.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Piaget
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subject: Freud
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subject: psychoanalysis
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creator: Anselmo de Lima Chaves
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-11
publication date: 2026-06-11
starting page: e240040
ending page: e240040
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240040

Teatro Oficina: tragycomediorgy as re-existence
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description: From the ‘tragycomediorgy’ approach created by Teatro Oficina, which can be found in the Bacantes play, this article reflects on some influences on the style developed by the company and its possible subjectivizing effects. By combining tragedy, comedy and orgy, Teatro Oficina has developed a subversive practice to critique the prevailing dramatic representation in a certain type of theater, promoting a new type more interested in the strength of the ritual encounter and in the expressiveness of the Dionysian choir. Devouring the Greek tragedy Bacchae, in an anthropophagic appropriation influenced by Oswaldian thought, the company allows its audience to experience the tragic universe in a Brazilian manner, contaminated by humor and carnivalization. By promoting transgressions in stagnant artistic forms, Teatro Oficina’s work opens gaps for art to be an instrument of re-existence, operating aesthetic transformations articulated with new forms of life.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Teatro Oficina
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subject: tragycomediorgy
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subject: carnivalization
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subject: anthropophagy
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subject: re-existence
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creator: Isadora Fração Lago
creator: Amadeu de Oliveira Weinmann
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-08
publication date: 2026-06-08
starting page: e230177
ending page: e230177
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e230177

Contemporary paradoxes for career guidance and counseling: constructing another approach to another world
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description: Career guidance and counseling constitutes a specialized field of applied psychology that focuses on helping individuals reflect on and plan their working future. This field currently encounters several paradoxes that we aim to identify and discuss. Paradoxes consist of co-occurring contradictory and conflicting situations, making them challenging to synthesize. Drawing from social psychology and recent developments in the counseling field, we will explore these contemporary paradoxes and indicate strategies for addressing them. Today’s world significantly challenge the construction of narratives, identities, and histories. We face a lack of validated social references, disinformation, and an overwhelming focus on the present that hinders future planning. Additionally, the flexibilization of work and the individualization of life complicate our understanding of ourselves and the world, making it hard to create dignified career trajectories. We will discuss potential strategies for coping with these challenges, emphasizing key elements crucial for effective counseling interventions.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: vocational guidance
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subject: paradox
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subject: dignity
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subject: work
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subject: psychosocial intervention
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creator: Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-08
publication date: 2026-06-08
starting page: e240159
ending page: e240159
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240159

The Naoki case: a perspective between the drive for mastery and Attachment Theory
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description: This article discusses the “drive for mastery” (Bemächtigungstrieb) as used by Freud, analyzing its similarities and differences with Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. The demonstration is based on the case of an autistic child, Naoki Higashida, using his autobiographical book The Reason I Jump. First, we draw a parallel between attachment and the expression of mastery; next, we examine the distinction of this drive; and finally, we highlight the aspects of this drive force in a psychopathological condition. In this development, we emphasize the presence of the apparatus of mastery in autism, marked by stereotypy, whose function is to establish psychic order. This apparatus operates primarily through the voice, its object of appropriation/rejection. In Naoki’s case, this is expressed in the formulation “we look at the voice.” Lastly, we underline the pathogenic aspect of mastery, as well as the child’s invention in the transition from “being for oneself” to “being for the other” in the social bond.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: attachment
  topic: keywords
subject: autism
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subject: drive
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subject: mastery
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subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: pulsion
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creator: Antonio Trevisan
creator: Jean Michel Vivès
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
starting page: e260001
ending page: e260001
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e260001

The social dimension of trauma according to Sándor Ferenczi’s contributions
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description: This article presents Sándor Ferenczi’s contributions to our understanding of the social dimension of trauma. We first discuss texts written by Ferenczi starting in 1928, in which he focuses on detailing his understanding of the traumatic. Next, we address the social dimension of trauma based on the notion of disavowal, thus presenting the importance of studying Ferenczi’s work for understanding not only individual trauma but also social trauma, as occurs in situations of racism.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: social trauma
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subject: Sándor Ferenczi
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subject: disavowal
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subject: psychoanalysis
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creator: Nickolas Bastos
creator: Vládia Jucá
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: e240091
ending page: e240091
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240091

Greenspan’s contributions on affect and transference at pre-representational levels
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description: This article analyzes Stanley Greenspan’s proposition about certain patients who, due to deficits in so-called structural capacities, would not be able be unable to elaborate and differentiate mental representations in the context of transference dynamics. We start by assuming that these capacities need to be evaluated during psychic treatment based on Greenspan’s understanding of the affect function in the transference relationship. Based on comparisons with Freudian conceptions of affect and transference, Greenspan’s proposal is explored in its clinical and theoretical implications. As a result, we highlight the contributions of the DIR/Floortime model’s creator on affect as the sensory organizer capable of providing intention to actions and connecting the dimensions of human experience that support emotional and intellectual development at more complex levels.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: developmental psychology
  topic: keywords
subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: affect
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subject: transference
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subject: representations
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creator: Gabriel Artur Marra e Rosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-28
publication date: 2026-05-28
starting page: e240012
ending page: e240012
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240012

Violence against women, feminism and behavior analysis: A literature review
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description: This bibliographical review characterizes the production of behavior analysis research on violence against women, and to what extent this production dialogues with feminist perspectives on the topic. Bibliographic search was conducted in national and international journals using terms and combinations referring to the topic, followed by reading and analyzing the titles, abstracts and keywords of the identified studies. In total, 30 studies were selected for the characterization. Occurrences of feminist terms were identified and evaluated to understand whether behaviorist perspectives dialogue with feminist interpretations. Results indicate that this dialogue has grown significantly, especially in Brazil. We suggest that the three investigative axes proposed by behavior analysis can be useful in different ways to interpret and transform the phenomenon.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: behavior analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: violence against women
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subject: gender
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subject: feminism
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creator: Izabel Cristina Soares
creator: Letícia Venturi da Silva
creator: Alexandre Dittrich
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-27
publication date: 2026-05-27
starting page: e240083
ending page: e240083
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240083

Overcoming the structured family as inclusion of diversity: an experience report
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description: This article discusses the training of 91 healthcare professionals from Niterói attending the Escola da Família Program in 2022. Study methodology included participant observation, field diary records, and analysis based on the hermeneutic-dialectical method. Sensitizing professionals to parental practices that promote mental health and prevent intrafamilial violence was achieved progressively through linguistic interactions within the groups, fostering the exchange of practical and theoretical knowledge. The training discussions critically addressed violence against diverse family configurations, including gender issues, LGBTQIA+ parenting, and the expanded concept of family. The role of healthcare professionals in building an inclusive care network is emphasized. In conclusion, the expanded notion of family should be recognized beyond the hegemonic heterocisnormative model.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: parenting
  topic: keywords
subject: same-sex parenting
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subject: gender differences
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subject: popular education
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subject: psychoanalysis
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creator: Eduardo Portela
creator: Viviane Legnani
creator: Katia Cristina Tarouquella Brasil
creator: Marcele Zveiter
creator: Sandra Santos Cabral
creator: Daniela Sheinkman Chatelard
creator: Joana Lima do Patrocínio
creator: Ághata Ferreira de Sousa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-27
publication date: 2026-05-27
starting page: e240137
ending page: e240137
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240137

Ghostly representations: trauma, affects and psychic representations in the face of Derridean hauntology
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description: This research aims to demonstrate how the concept of spectrum proposed by Jacques Derrida can be related to elements of Freudian psychoanalysis, broadening the effects and repercussions both in the psychoanalytic clinic and in the processes of cultural research. To achieve this objective, the article is divided into three parts: the first deals with the concept of spectrum from Derrida’s point of view; the second presents the notions of trauma, affect, and psychic presentation in Freud’s early writings; and, finally, the third deals with the conceptual relationship between both theories, allowing a glimpse of how both are linked, allowing the feedback between them to configure new research horizons.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
subject: contemporary philosophy
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subject: poststructuralism
  topic: keywords
creator: Juan David Almeyda Sarmiento
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-25
publication date: 2026-05-25
starting page: e240153
ending page: e240153
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240153

Risk and protective factors for pro-aggressor and defender rolls in family context
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description: School violence episodes entails the roles of victim, aggressor and observer. Research on the observer usually focus on personal and school variables, but an important context to investigate is that of the family due to its influence on student behavior. Thus, this study surveyed family-related risk and protective factors for the role of observer defender and pro-aggressor. A total of 1,536 high school students randomly sampled by clusters participated in this cross-sectional study by answering scales related to the family and the observer role in a violence episode. Instrument completion lasted 40 minutes. Results showed three models where prosocial parenting practices are crucial protective factor, together with parental communication, as they increase the probability of being a defender by 500%. In conclusion, parenting aimed at teaching prosocial practices increases the likelihood of students participating as a defender in school violence.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: bullying
  topic: keywords
subject: parent education
  topic: keywords
subject: socialization
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creator: Daniel Fregoso Borrego
creator: José Angel Vera Noriega
creator: Karen Guadalupe Duarte Tánori
creator: María Clara Cuevas Jaramillo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-22
publication date: 2026-05-22
starting page: e200158
ending page: e200158
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e200158

Perinatal clinical practice: Psychoanalytic reflections on perinatal mourning
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description: This article investigates the specific mourning process experienced by parents following perinatal death. After providing a definition of clinical psychology and perinatal mourning, we discuss the clinical practice surrounding death during this period. Parents are compelled to interrupt the identity transformation process initiated by the transition to parenthood and face the death of a “virtual object,” concept coined by Sylvain Missonnier which forms the basis of this work. For perinatal mourning to be experienced, an objectification process of the fetus/infant must occur; however, such mourning will still retain a narcissistic dimension. To grieve a part of themselves, parents will require not only a supportive environment but also the establishment of a potential space where creative constructions, such as the analytic space, can take place.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: mourning
  topic: keywords
subject: perinatal period
  topic: keywords
subject: parenthood
  topic: keywords
subject: virtual object
  topic: keywords
creator: Helena Carneiro Aguiar
creator: Silvia Maria Abu-Jamra Zornig
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-22
publication date: 2026-05-22
starting page: e240139
ending page: e240139
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240139

Health processes and the COVID-19 pandemic for homeless people
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description: This research investigates the health processes experienced by homeless people in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual structured interviews were conducted in person and remotely with 23 homeless participants from three Brazilian cities, aged 18 and over. Data analysis followed content analysis and used the ATLAS ti 5.2 software based on the categories “ways of life”, “health-disease processes” and “impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic”. Lack of employment and income, hunger, drug abuse as a strategy to endure suffering, poor quality of sleep due to the fear of violence, and difficulties in accessing food and health services are all issues for homeless people that were exacerbated during the pandemic, bringing visibility to social inequalities in health.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: homeless people
  topic: keywords
subject: health
  topic: keywords
subject: covid-19
  topic: keywords
creator: Verônica Morais Ximenes
creator: Rayssa Modesto de Souza Brito
creator: Samyla Fernandes de Sousa
creator: Samia de Carliris Oliveira Barbosa
creator: Clarice Regina Catelan Ferreira
creator: Maria Olivia Mendes Rocha
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-20
publication date: 2026-05-20
starting page: e240053
ending page: e240053
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240053

Humanity and Animality in the History of Madness
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description: This paper seeks to understand how the concepts of animality and humanity impacted the conception of madman in contemporary times. Since the Middle Ages, the theme of madness has emerged as an emblematic element in history, impacting the conception of the Western man. Linking madness to animality has implications for the inhuman methods applied to treating madness. As such, this theoretical study concatenates historical data from the work of Michel Foucault (1978) to analyze the concepts of human and animal and their applicability to the phenomenon of madness. Additionally, Frantz Fanon’s decolonial perspective is used to bring the aforementioned phenomenon closer to the operations conducted during the colonial period, revealing that the dehumanization of the different emerges as a systematic strategy for subjugating so-called “deviant” portions of society.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: animality
  topic: keywords
subject: craziness
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: decoloniality
  topic: keywords
creator: Natália Macário dos Santos
creator: Amanda Oliveira Mota
creator: Graciela Froehlich
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-18
publication date: 2026-05-18
starting page: e230130
ending page: e230130
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e230130

Women and alcohol abuse: trajectory of care and monitoring at CAPSad
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description: Alcohol abuse is a reality in Brazil and worldwide. While data shows a growing trend regarding this phenomenon among women, health services are still poorly prepared to care for this population. Thus, this study investigated the trajectory of care and monitoring at CAPSad for women with problems related to alcohol abuse. A qualitative research was conducted with eleven women monitored at CAPSad using narrative interviews. Data were analyzed according to Grounded-Theory. Results revealed that for most participants, CAPSad was the only specialized service accessed. The bond with professionals and the existence of specific groups for women were preponderant factors for participant attendance at the service and its positive evaluation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: women
  topic: keywords
subject: alcohol
  topic: keywords
subject: care
  topic: keywords
subject: CAPSad
  topic: keywords
creator: Claudia Daiana Borges
creator: Daniela Ribeiro Schneider
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-18
publication date: 2026-05-18
starting page: e240013
ending page: e240013
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240013

Patterns of Absences in the Life Trajectories of Girls Serving Socio-Educational Custodial Sentences
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description: Defending the rights of children and teenagers is a fundamental issue for building an egalitarian society. In recent decades, a series of legal apparatuses and public equipments have been created but many weaknesses still persists, specifically in the context of teenagers serving socio-educational custodial sentences. In this article, we discuss the gap between what is prescribed and the reality on the ground of a public equipment responsible for executing socio-educational measures of deprivation of liberty in Minas Gerais, based on the results of a PhD research conducted in an inpatient unit. We identified a recurring pattern of failures and shortcomings on the part of the protection network institutions that affects not only children and teenagers, but also their families. These are trajectories marked by social inequality and which, as a result of ethical-political suffering, are devoid of a future perspective.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: teenagers
  topic: keywords
subject: socio-educational measure
  topic: keywords
subject: deprivation of liberty
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subject: ethical-political suffering
  topic: keywords
subject: girls
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creator: Michele Castro Caldeira
creator: Maria Ignez Costa Moreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-15
publication date: 2026-05-15
starting page: e220100
ending page: e220100
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e220100

Psychobiological aspects of emotional regulation in alcohol use disorders
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description: This theoretical essay explores the relationships between different aspects of emotional regulation and alcohol use disorder. Emotional regulation is discussed as a critical process influenced by cognitive and neurobiological responses to alcohol, in which dysregulation is a key factor in the persistence and severity of this disorder. The essay highlights the impact of emotional strategies on alcohol consumption behaviors, further linking alcohol use disorder to broader cognitive and social impairments. The main findings indicate that alcohol exerts significant neurobiological and behavioral influences on emotional regulation in various individual contexts. Literature also indicates that emotional dysregulation, potentiated by alcohol consumption, is associated with cognitive and behavioral impairments, while adaptive regulatory strategies are related to benefits in the prevention and recovery of dependence.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: alcohol abuse
  topic: keywords
subject: emotions
  topic: keywords
subject: behavioral problems
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creator: Fernando Ferreira Semolini
creator: Laura Soares da Silva
creator: Adriana Scatena
creator: Amanda Severo Lins Vitta
creator: Evelin Moreira Freires
creator: André Luiz Monezi Andrade
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-27
publication date: 2026-04-27
starting page: e250001
ending page: e250001
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e250001

Healthy aging: impact of health promotion group on social representation of older adults
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description: This study investigated the impact of multidisciplinary interventions of a health promotion and health aging group of the Geriatrics Service of a tertiary hospital in São Paulo in 2018, through psychoeducational conversation circles. The sample consisted of 25 older adults – average age 72.08 years (SD=5.34); female (72%); single (40%); higher education (44%). The social representations of “older adults” were surveyed using the Thematic Story-Drawing Technique. Results showed a realistic perception regarding aging, with greater awareness of physical limitation and the potential of investment in appearance; greater expression of emotional sphere and improvement of the social aspect through the formation of new bonds.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: health promotion
  topic: keywords
subject: aged
  topic: keywords
subject: social representation
  topic: keywords
creator: Taynara Sampaio
creator: Cecilia Galetti
creator: Wilson Jacob-Filho
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-23
publication date: 2026-04-23
starting page: e220098
ending page: e220098
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e220098

The Psychoanalysis of the Institutional Analysis of Discourse
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description: Institutional analysis of discourse is a thought strategy for professional practice and research in psychology that has been developed and carried out by M. Guirado, professor and researcher at IPUSP. This method constitutes a particular conceptual field that is produced in interfaces with four areas of knowledge: Guilhon Albuquerque’s sociology, Foucault’s ideas, Dominique Maingueneau’s pragmatic linguistics, and Freud’s psychoanalysis. This study addresses the conceptual scope of this thought strategy produced in interlocutions and frontiers with Freudian thought. Supported by academic research results, we aim to discuss the conditions of possibility of working with a specific perspective on psychoanalysis that, via confrontations and tensions, enables us to think with some of Freud’s conceptual productions in a twisted way outside the strict field of psychoanalysis and inside this method.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: institutional analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: analysis of discourse
  topic: keywords
subject: psychoanalysis
  topic: keywords
creator: Lucas Bullara Martins da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-23
publication date: 2026-04-23
starting page: e220041
ending page: e220041
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e220041

Speaking Place: collaborations for a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial Science
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description: Science has long supported discourses that promote advances and setbacks in the construction of citizenship. However, Psychology, anchored in ethical principles, is called upon to commit to orienting its knowledge towards the promotion of justice. This work aims to: (1) procure arguments that highlight the relevance of the work Where we Stand, by Djamila Ribeiro, for reflecting on Science; (2) understand how coloniality, epistemicide and whiteness guide the perception of knowledge and science in Western culture; and (3) recognize the relevance of Psychology as a powerful scientific field for social transformation. We discuss here the idea of Science from the perspective presented in the book Where we Stand. Theoretical research denounces that white logic erases the knowledge produced by non-white people, losing its collaborative potential for social equity.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: feminism
  topic: keywords
subject: anti-racism
  topic: keywords
subject: colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: science
  topic: keywords
creator: Walter Aristóteles Oliveira Miez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-23
publication date: 2026-04-23
starting page: e240155
ending page: e240155
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240155

Total pain in oncology palliative care: an exploratory study with patients and healthcare providers
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description: This study aimed to understand total pain (physical, psychological, spiritual, and social) and compare the discourses of healthcare providers and cancer patients in palliative care. A qualitative study was conducted, interviewing 13 professionals and five patients and evaluating data by using IRaMuTeQ and content analysis. Results were organized into five classes: (1) “In a mix of pain: definition of total pain,” approaching its multidimensionality; (2) “Pain and the multiprofessional team: the need for care,” emphasizing an integral look at the subject; (3) “Evaluation of total pain,” indicating different techniques; (4) “Each day I live is a miracle: pain and the relationship with spirituality,” as a coping strategy; and (5) Family: bonds that console and suffer with cancer, reinforcing their social support. We found a need to invest in the evaluation and treatment of cancer pain as its unique attention can collaborate to face the disease with greater dignity.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: total pain
  topic: keywords
subject: cancer
  topic: keywords
subject: palliative care
  topic: keywords
subject: patients
  topic: keywords
subject: multidisciplinary team
  topic: keywords
creator: Alana Mabda Leite Gomes
creator: Cynthia de Freitas Melo
creator: Karla Patricia Martins Ferreira
creator: Railda Sabino Fernandes Alves
creator: Maria Rita Zoéga Soares
creator: Eulalia Maria Chaves Maia
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-15
publication date: 2026-04-15
starting page: e210133
ending page: e210133
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e210133

The legal form in social policies: A Marxist critique of the legal subject and capitalist legal relations
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description: This article analyzes the core notion of “guarantee of rights” in Brazilian social policies, more specifically on social assistance, questioning the recurrent use of the category “subject of rights.” Drawing on the Marxist tradition, especially the theory of the legal form, we argue that the legal subject does not constitute a universal category, but rather a social form historically linked to capitalist commodity relations. In this regard, we discuss how the incorporation of this category into social policies produces a fundamental tension: while it guides the formal expansion of rights, it also operates within the limits of a legal form that expresses and reproduces the very inequalities that these policies seek to confront. Finally, we outline the implications of this contradiction for psychological practice within social policies.
subject: Dossiê Psicologia e Marxismo
  topic: section
subject: legal subject
  topic: keywords
subject: legal form
  topic: keywords
subject: social policies
  topic: keywords
subject: Marxism
  topic: keywords
creator: Lisandra Chaves de Aquino Morais
creator: Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-28
publication date: 2026-07-28
starting page: e246651
ending page: e246651
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e246651

From the ontology of labor to the critique of science under capitalism: implications for psychology
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description: This article analyzes the origin of science in its ontological relation to labor, indicating that it emerges in social praxis from human needs. Its inscription within the socio-metabolic system of capital is examined, highlighting its bourgeois character and its relationship with technological advancement and capital accumulation. The offensives of the dominant class are addressed, as expressed in neoliberal political-economic practices that intensify the precarization of living and working conditions of workers in general and psychologists in particular. The precarious conditions of education and work of psychologists in Brazil may limit the advancement of science. In conclusion, although Psychology is not restricted to being an instrument of the dominant class, it cannot be considered a response to the illness of the working class. Overcoming these problems lies in collective self-organization aimed at a radical transformation of society.
subject: Dossiê Psicologia e Marxismo
  topic: section
subject: science
  topic: keywords
subject: psychology
  topic: keywords
subject: precarization of work
  topic: keywords
subject: neoliberalism
  topic: keywords
creator: Amanda Biasi Callegari
creator: Livia Gomes dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-21
publication date: 2026-07-21
starting page: e246799
ending page: e246799
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e246799

Attentive listening and Pluriversal reading of a public school in São Paulo: a case study of the school institution
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description: Faced with the violence that hit the school community in Brazil in 2023, this article proposes reflections on the genesis of this violence and ways of coping with it. Its initial question was whether this ‘language in act’ can become a racist ‘passage to the act’ — as Sodré points out regarding the ambiguity of the founding violence of Brazilian society — considering Bateson’s formulations on the double bind. African philosophies can offer a fertile field for re-establishing the broken bonds in the school community and converting this tendency toward indiscriminate violence into a transformative insurgency that can confront the ambiguity in the face of racism the Brazilian society insists on denying. Finally, psychoanalytical reflections on institutions were essential for understanding the investigated defensive dynamics of the school community.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: language in act of adolescence
  topic: keywords
subject: violence and insurgency at school
  topic: keywords
subject: passages to the racist act
  topic: keywords
subject: the school institution and its vicissitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: African philosophies and community ties
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creator: Mônica G. T. do Amaral
creator: Marina Nunes Dias
creator: Edclay Lindoanna Oliveira de Mello
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-24
publication date: 2026-03-24
starting page: e240126
ending page: e240126
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240126

“The woman does not exist”. And what about the man?
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description: Based on the Lacanian aphorism “The Woman does not exist,” this study aims to question if The Man exists. To this end, a review of Lacan’s construction on the nonexistence of The Woman was conducted via his sexuation formulas, followed by an exploration, grounded in Lacan’s own teachings, of considerations that support the nonexistence of The Man. This foundation is supplemented by a discussion on how masculinity has been shaped by discourses on the virile ideal that seek to give it some consistency, which, in contemporary times, fail to define what it means to be a man due to disruptions in the patriarchal order. This study concludes that masculinity is plural and that the idea of a closed set in which all are alike merely reflects a monotony sustained by the phallic reference.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: woman
  topic: keywords
subject: man
  topic: keywords
subject: nonexistence
  topic: keywords
subject: Lacan
  topic: keywords
subject: sexuation
  topic: keywords
creator: Flavia Gaze Bonfim
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Psicologia USP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-24
publication date: 2026-03-24
starting page: e240147
ending page: e240147
doi: 10.1590/0103-6564e240147