Abstract
This article is built on reflections based on a Brazilian psychoanalysis with an interface in social psychology, aiming to integrate it into the Mozambican Mental Health. Mozambique is a country that operates in a non-westernized logic; with a care system that for centuries has come from healing practices, known in the country as Traditional Medicine. As public mental health policies are governed by a Western perspective, a question was raised about the theoretical reformulations that might be necessary for the insertion of new clinical devices in the country, including traditional knowledge. Being a traverse, the method of writing letters was chosen to better contemplate the encounter between these two realities, so different and yet so similar.
Keywords:
Correspondences; Psychoanalysis; Traditional medicine; Clinical devices