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MONSTER
GROUP
online study group in psychology, gender and sexuality
Can clinical listening be neutral?
What are the effects of your body/gender/sexuality on the therapeutic relationship with the people you listen to?
During your training, have you ever thought (or been taught) that to work in psychology you would have to hide a little who you are?
The Monster Group arises from this restlessness. Why Monster? For a long time and until today, we have received looks as if we were monstrosities, threats to the norm. Our invitation is to accept our difference by bringing it to the field of possibilities. Our bodies can (and should) occupy spaces without needing the endorsement of the supposed normality. We propose a space for study and exchange that aims to reflect on the impositions placed on our bodies and dissenting subjectivities in favor of "professional neutrality". We want to deform and reform listening for a practice that suits us. The eyes of normality focused on our unsettling difference taught us to be afraid of what we should be most proud of: who we are. Therefore, as a political act of production of self-memory, we propose a group to establish a collective commitment to an ethic of care that does not seek unique truths. We propose a safe space for sharing stories, starting with the text "I am the monster that speaks to you" by Paul Preciado
As a result, a file of phrases and memories of the self was generated.
Participators
Marco Vagnotti
Gustavo da Silva Machado
Lucas de Mello Reitz
Ariel Caetano
Fabiane Kravutschke Bogdanovicz
Isadora Sammi Clausen
Jade da Silveira Fraga
Julia de Souza Lopes
Katia Maria Véras
Martina Angnes