Abstract
This article proposes to discuss psychological care as a political practice of affirming life and health in the national scenery, in which public policies to address the Covid-19 pandemic have taken a step away from a broader notion of care. Inspired by the experience of working in a public university psychological care facility during this pandemic, our aim with this text is to discuss the challenges to overcome a classic model of "caring" in psychology. Based on cartography, we follow 5 clues: “the-pandemic-in-us”, “the psychological care and its tracks”, “contact, contagion and the power of encounters”, “caring as a revolution in a living experience of affirmation of life” and “support and affection in a committed practice”. Such clues problematize the practice of psychological care starting from the reconfiguration of relational boundaries in extreme situations, in this case, the pandemic, as well as from the affections that this intervention produces in psychology.
Keywords:
caring; psychology practices; pandemic; Covid-19; life-affirming policies