Dialogues of Psychology with Michel Foucault

Abstract The purpose of this article is to discuss how psychology in Brazil has dialogued with philosopher Michel Foucault’s theorizations. We present the results of an investigation that analyzed scientific articles of psychology that use the theoretical and methodological tools of the author. These articles were published in indexed electronic journals and are available on the website of the Virtual Health Library (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, BVS-Psi). The results point to an increasing use of the author since the early 2000s, especially in social psychology. The main points of articulation with the Foucauldian thought were: the problematization of the scientific production itself, questioning its neutrality and affirming, therefore, its political dimension; the analysis of the interrelationship between the production of discourses and modes of subjectivity connected to governmentality practices, biopolitics strategies, and normalization of life; and, finally, the questioning of psychological practices as ethical devices of subjectification.