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I think that, in order to understand the processes of subjectivation of black people, it is necessary the listening in which we focus on processes of racialization. My point is that racism is structuring for black subjectivities. My hypothesis is that the validity of psychoanalysis as a tool to explain the suffering of black people is conditioned, on the one hand, to listening to factors, in Fanon’s terms, sociogenetic; and, on the other hand, to the understanding that the processes of subjectivation of black people are structurally crossed by racism. Considering this crossing, I propose a clinic I call implicated, in which an anti-racist listening starts to appear as a psychoanalytic technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we analyse the relationship between Black psychologists and Black patients, considering issues such as black representation in the clinical field, structural racism in training and professional field and the identifications between patients and psychologists, focusing on the power of black collectivity in psychology. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six female clinical psychologists from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Their speeches were analysed based on intersectional feminist and race studies. The analysis of the interviews points out the increase in demand, by Black people, for Black psychologists, mainly because they do not feel welcome and do not find qualified listening to issues related to racism in their treatments with white professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having regard to transidentitarian experiences, anchored in the refusal of the binary gender norm, this article intends to discuss the ethical political horizon of a clinic that articulates itself to the idea of a multitude of minorities. In order to do so, it starts with a brief historical consideration of the psychoanalytic appropriation of the so-called transsexuality, indicating a displacement between the figure of the “true transexual”, described by Robert Stoller, and the contemporary forms of gender dissidence. We consider, specially, the emphasis on the diagnostic-etiological model. Finally, we propose the consideration of the psychoanalytic clinic as a field of ethical experimentation, supported by a critical attitude that permanently interrogates the hegemonic forms of subjectivation and social bond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trauma, subjectivation and governability in the Coronavirus pandemic. The intention of this essay is to problematize the effects on the singularities of the Coronavirus pandemic in the eminently psychic register, articulating the traumatic experience with forms of subjectivation and governability, respectively. With this, trauma can be interpreted as a singular and collective production at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]