Indigenous Psychology

mapping becomings

Abstract

Psychology reaches indigenous peoples in Brazil as an ethnocentric science that overlaps their knowledge because its knowledge does not consider their particularities and the healthcare in their culture. Not by chance, the work of psychologists with these peoples has been an aspect of the attention of psychology boards. This article converges to this psychological work facet; it aims to understand what an indigenous psychology would be, by whom it would be built, and what would be its possibilities of action. This understanding derived from interviews with members of the Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Psychologists, who identify themselves as psychologists and indigenous people. At first, they answered questionnaires; then they were interviewed. The method of data analysis was Deleuze and Guattari’s cartography, translated into four common flows: body-territory (issues of identity and belonging); crossroads of difference (production of a rhizomatic psychology); the head thinks from where the feet step (reaffirmation of the importance of considering the historical process of construction of psychological knowledge); all painted in jenipapo color and annatto color (process/projects of foundation Brazilian association for indigenous psychology); indigenous devir-psychology (construction of a libertarian, decolonial psychology not only by indigenous peoples but also to them).