TEACHING, PSYCHOLOGY, HEALTH: A TRIAD MADE UP OF PRACTICES, ISSUES AND POSSIBILITIES

This text aims at bringing about discussions, analyses and propositions regarding the teaching of Psychology in the medical field. It starts presenting some problems in teaching in the medical schools at the present time in the public policies of education and health in Brazil, a main challenge being the process of transformation of the graduation courses in the medical field into the incorporation of the broadened concept of health, and the emphasis on the integrity and care in the process of professional training, as well as learning how to work within a multi-professional team, and the discussion of the conditions brought by the educational and assistance plans and projects. In this context, the question is asked what for and to whom the teaching of Psychology is directed which is able to articulate this care, integrity, social control, humanization and ethics, without putting into second place the psychological approach. The senses and subjects of the teaching of Psychology in the health area are being decoded and recreated, thus demanding a careful analysis of the social-political surroundings, and the ethical projects we want to establish within the proposals of education for health professionals.