Pelo (re)florestamento da psicologia: uma revisão sistemática de literatura

Abstract

In the face of the contemporary climate crisis and its effects - not yet completely known - associated with the subjective and collective illness of humanity, the purpose of this research was to investigate, gather and understand the scientific productions of the last 5 years that articulate Ecology and Psychology. The approach used for this research was Literature Review with Meta-Synthesis, whose objective was to map and integrate qualitative studies on the subject. In this way, some of the databases with the greatest relevance in the national academic context such as Scielo, BVS-Psi, Pepsic and Portal CAPES were investigated, through the descriptors "ecology and mental health"; "ecopsychology"; "nature/environment and psychology"; "green parks and mental health"; "climate change and psychology"; "psychology of emergencies and disasters"; "environmental psychology" and "nature deficit disorder". In total, 26 articles were extracted for analysis and discussion purposes. The results point to a still timid scientific production in the field of Psychology intersected with Ecology, in which the references of Mental Health are also rooted in access and relationship with Nature. In view of the findings, three axes of analysis were proposed: 1) Epistemological Perspectives on the Environmental Issue Articulated to Psychology; 2) Effects of Environmental Issues on Mental Health and 3) Psychological Action in the Face of Environmental Problems. The first linked to the construction of new relationships between humanity and the environment; the second focused on the impacts of environmental issues on mental health in terms of the benefits of sustainable relationships with nature and the harms of distancing and environmental degradation; and the last on proposals for intervention by psychology, especially in the context of emergencies and disasters. In this sense, it is essential, therefore, that Psychology can contribute with its knowledge both for prevention and for the remediation of the scenarios that will potentially unfold from now on at micro and macropolitical levels, inciting, perhaps, avant-garde Public Policies for the urgency of climate change and its repercussions on human subjectivity and social organization.