Writing processes in processes: a narrative cartographic research in legal psychology Leandro Augusto Ferreira

Abstract

Contextualization: The work originates from analyses and considerations raised from the master's dissertation “A psychologist in processes: fair images and justly images in the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo”, defended in 2020 at the Postgraduate Program in Teaching in Health Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo. Problem: The article problematizes the process of writing psychological reports in the judicial sphere, relating the exercise of the expert function to the effects and affects produced by this work. Objective: To analyze writing in the context of forensic psychology. Method: From the perspective of a psychologist in processes, an intervention research was carried out with the cartography method, using the strategy of writing plausible narratives that put into action and into perspective elements that are and are not included in the records, related to the written production of the forensic psychologist. Results: The lines of force at play in the performance and production of psychological reports were analyzed, considering knowledge-power, weight and effects of truth, different writing policies and problems and tensions between technical-scientific writing focused on a legal problem and other ways of narrating, of affecting and being affected. Conclusions: The article concludes that psychological reports often tend towards a normalizing writing, which outlines and closes cases, and can thus be configured in the moralization and simplification of complexities, failing to consider and express phenomena and singular marks that encounters and interferences produce in their subjects and in their production of subjectivities.