Psicologia humanista e educação popular na atenção primária à saúde

Abstract

The study aimed to analyse the contribution of Humanist Psychology from Carl Rogers and the Popular Education developed by Paulo Freire, within the Primary Attention on Health. It was took as object the experience experienced by the University Extension Project Beyond the Classical Clinical Psychology from The University of Paraíba, experience wich, happening in popular communities, used in an articulated and complementary ways the theoritical-espistemological remarked references. This experience was initiated in 2002 and continues at the moment, as reflexion and form that this researcher found to answer some of her inquietations and searches to find the ways of a psychological attention practice for popular classes in the context of Primary Attention on Health, and also within the formation of the psychologist more integrated on Brazilian social reality. The Project was built from its affinity on the Humanist Psychology so as on the Popular Education during its process of formation and professional practice as psychologist. The study was fulfilled to systemize and analyse the knowledges built by this Extension Project through its ten years performance. For wich it was fulfilled a qualitative analysis from the collected pieces of information through the participatory observation created by the researcher between 2002 and 2012, whose registers where all written down on her field journal, and also through other documental sources involving on the experience of the Project. Yet, four interviews were done semi structured to better extend the range of information about the experience. After the systematization of the pieces of information, it was developed a dialectical analysis about the experienced processes, organizing them into more important dimensions that involved its learnings. The analysis in addition to having demonstrated the possibility and the relevance of the joint and complementary use of these two theoritical-epestemological references, also pointed out that the contribution of Rogers to improve the listening and dialogue provides a high magnification of the deepest subjective dimensions involved in the dialogue formulated by Freire. At the same time, showed the importance of Popular Education to improve dialogue in Humanist Psychology to enlarge its collective and political dimension. Within the Primary Attention the conjugation of these two perspectives enabled the development of magnified care practices that surprised for its innovating and humanist character and which might contribute to the improvement of the current assistance model from SUS, and point at new ways of insertion of the Psychology within the attention on community health that overcome the usual model focused on the individual consultation.