BIOÉTICA E SAÚDE MENTAL INDÍGENA: INTERCULTURALIDADE OU INTEGRACIONISMO?

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9652309107

• Palavras-chave: Saúde mental indígena; limites bioéticos; interculturalidade; intervenção psicológica; colonialismo.

• Keywords: Indigenous mental health; bioethical limits; interculturality; psychological intervention; colonialism.

• Abstract: This research seeks to analyze how psychological practice builds its bioethical limits in interventions in indigenous communities, considering the eugenics and colonial history of the Brazilian State and the profession. It will discuss how the encounter between different cultures can assume a character of domination by the non-indigenous professional, since psychological knowledge is still permeated by Eurocentric theories and practices, which do not cover what indigenous mental health and its complex subjectivities. In this way, Brazil's colonial past will be outlined and how it contributes to the current erasure of the original collective subject in discussions of mental health. In addition, bibliographical research by indigenous health researchers was used to address the constitutional and political measures responsible for creating laws, guidelines and institutions that ensure the rights and access of indigenous populations to differentiated health. Based on the definitions of what health and illness are in the native cosmovisions, a parallel is drawn up to the need for a bioethical psychological action based on the principle of autonomy, since it is fundamental to establish limits for the interventions of non-indigenous psychologists, who are far from traditional realities and, therefore, must assume a position of listening and learning in line with the cultural parameters of the people in question.