Abstract
This paper aims to report an academic experience occurred in 2008 in an asylum establishment in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The study proposes to relate the courses of Social Psychology II and Institutional Psychology, part of the Psychology Graduation Course of URI campus Santiago, with the paper “The Docile Bod ies”, in “Discipline and Punishment”, from Michel Foucault, and concepts of institutional psychology as institutions and institutes practices, bureaucracy, and self-management. The aim is not to investigate the origin of these concepts, but to think about possibilities for psychology to use these concepts on its work on institutions, departing from this experience in asylums. Trough this report, we seek to reflect about the people living in the asylum routine, to understand discipline and power relations in the institution. During weekly visits in the establishment, we aimed to promote with people living in the asylum a possibility of reflection about the place they live and their own subjectivity
| Translated title of the contribution | Social and Institutional Psychology as a dispositive to understand an asylum’s dynamics |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
| Pages (from-to) | 20-24 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Vivências: Revista Eletronica de Extensão da URI |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- Institutional analysis
- Social psychology