Psicólogos evangélicos: interseção entre religiosidade e atuação profissional em Psicologia no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Degani-carneiro, Filipe
• Orientador(a): Jacó-vilela, Ana Maria
• Banca de defesa: Castro, Alexandre de Carvalho , Carvalho, Emílio Nolasco de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicólogos História Brasil; Protestantismo; Psicoterapia; História da Psicologia no Brasil; Evangélicos; Religião
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: History of Psychology in Brazil; Evangelicals; Protestantism; Religion; Psychotherapy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::FUNDAMENTOS E MEDIDAS DA PSICOLOGIA::HISTORIA, TEORIAS E SISTEMAS EM PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15333

Over the last decades it has been noticed a huge investment in Psychology expressed as an interest for Psychology as secular profession as well as in the application of psychological knowledge in ecclesiastical activities. Another fact specially verified among evangelicals is the demand for being attended by a psychotherapist who professes the same faith. Since 1990's the evangelical investment in Psychology has increased visibly and raised up various conflicts between evangelical psychologists and professional regulatory bodies, mainly Conselho Federal de Psicologia, concerning the articulation between evangelical faith and practice in Psychology, especially in psychotherapy. Evangelicals are the most growing religious group in Brazil during the last decades, presenting not only a quantitative expansion, but above all a remarkable presence in Brazilian social scene. The articulations between Religion and Science are intensively observed in History of Psychology in Brazil since the colonial age, in which an important circulation of Catholic writings with psychological thematic ("psychology of the soul") took place until the mid 20th century when Psychology was introduced in Catholic seminaries to support the priests' formation. Although religious thematic has a great importance in psychosocial issues, it can be noticed a gap in the field of Psychology when it comes to religion studies (especially in a historical-social perspective). Therefore, it is necessary to reflect about the senses of the appropriation of psychological speech that is made by the evangelicals. Our empirical investigation has been achieved in two stages: a) it was applied an electronic questionnaire in 104 Evangelical psychologists in order to obtain information on their professional formation and practice, besides their personal perspective about the relation between their religious belief and professional practice; b) 5 participants of this group were selected to be interviewed in order to deepen the investigation on certain themes which arose from questionnaire's analysis. Our results mostly point to a multiplicity of speeches about the influence of evangelical faith on professional practice. Between those who report the total influence of religiousness and those who claim a strict neutrality, there is an spectrum with diverse ambivalent positions that in general indicates an indissociability between a vision of world influenced by religion and the professional practice at the same time that they point out the ethical need of suspension of judgment so that the therapist's religiousness won't interfere the client. These results point the existence of a common nucleus between the discursive systems of both Psychology and the Evangelical religion that produces the interest for appropriation of psychological knowledge and practice in this religious group. The analysis of these relations is fundamental to the current ethical debates among the category of psychologists concerning the intersection between religion and professional practice.