20 years of research in the Phenomenology, Theory and Clinic line of the PPGP in Psychology at UFPA

Abstract

The Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Pará (PPGP/UFPA) was founded in 2005 at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, offering a Master's degree. In 2014, it began offering a Doctorate degree. In 2008, the Research Lines were updated, consolidating the identity of the epistemological approach of Phenomenology: Theory and Clinical Practice. Research is conducted at the Master's and Doctoral levels, as well as through scholarships and voluntary research initiation; teaching courses, conducting academic fieldwork, leading study groups, and participating in scientific events. Broadly speaking, the research is qualitative, with literature reviews, empirical studies, and the development of research instruments; drawing on Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; the method of Amedeo Giorgi; and the hermeneutics of discourse/language of Paul Ricoeur. The studied territory includes Belém, the capital of Pará, and some municipalities where the students live and/or work. This text is configured as an intellectual evaluation effort to verify whether the phenomenological method remains epistemologically aligned with Husserlian and Heideggerian approaches, a European model, or whether there is an embryo, a proposal for composing a critical and decolonial Brazilian phenomenology. The text's sections are: a brief description of the research line's history; Guidelines for the Phenomenology: Theory and Clinical Research Line; and prospects.