FOR MORE "FEEL THINK" IN CLINICAL PARTICIPATORY-ACTION-RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY: DECOLONIAL DIRECTIONS BEYOND THE CASE STUDY

“I am not a case study!” Our history as a science and profession, Psychology, has pointed to a contradictory and often normative/violent path in the face of the production of care and knowledge. The clinic in Psychology or Clinical Psychology has origins and foundations grounded in the historical dispute present in the notions of health and clinic arising from the medical field. Eurocentric and American sovereignty in relation to clinical psychology led us to a hegemonic adaptationist, classificatory, hierarchical perspective centered on specialized knowledge mimicked in the figure of the professional/researcher; in this case, the psychologist. The article in question, therefore, is a decolonizing essay on the conception of research in Clinical Psychology, in particular, the so-called technical-theoretical resource, named case study. Based on a historical analysis of the very notion of clinic, clinical research and case study, a dive into the Latin American reference in participatory action-research is proposed, based on the idea of feeling thinking as an ethical, political horizon , ontological, epistemological and methodological for this making-to-know, understood in the core of the notion of knowing/caring – caring/knowing, as a course of the senti-thinking research process in Psychology. Therefore, we understand as a decolonizing task of clinical research in Psychology a repositioning of the case study notion, considering it a de-universalizing act, resorting to the tasks of a critical Psychology such as Socio-Historical Psychology, enhancing historical memory, de-ideologization and construction of a personal and collective identity as a path, having as authors of the care-research new agents of the process other than just the person who is named as researcher/psychologist, breaking with the idea that the case study or clinical research is about an Other, overcoming the traditional instrumental and pragmatic relationship classically established in conducting a clinical case study.