Reading and listening to lived experiences:

ethical recognition of the dignity of black people

Abstract

This is an exploratory theoretical study that seeks to combine notions of Gestalt clinical theory, Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology, and Franz Fanon's political clinical theory. In this journey of reading and listening to the world of texts, we articulate understandings from the perspective of free social identities and the dynamics of recognizing Black people as ethical, political, and cultural practices capable of disrupting a supposed discourse of truth and reaffirming the power of just and plural historical, cultural, and health-related meanings. The method included books and articles as sources analyzed. Hermeneutics situates the narratives of the colonizer and the colonized, conceived as free people. We conclude that a racialized Gestalt clinical practice favors Black people's increased creative adjustment, embodying the perception of psychosocial health and relationship needs. By revealing the narrative of a people, historical meanings and significance emerge that favor the confrontation and construction of more dignified stories for Black people.