Colonization, War and Mental Health: Fanon, Martín-Baró and the Implications for Brazilian Psychology

This theoretical article aims to discuss the understandings of Frantz Fanon and Ignacio Martín-Baró about the relationship between war, colonization and mental health and how they can contribute to the understanding of our reality. Furthermore, we intend to reflect on how such subsidies apply to Brazilian Psychology and its ethical-political project. We found a confluence in the authors analyzes, especially Fanon’s influence on Martín-Baró, towards an understanding of mental health remitted to our colonized constitution and how it manifests, is shaped and intensified by wars, even if not formal. Finally, we draw implications for a Psychology project that addresses mental health from the authors’ perspective and thus transforms itself by contributing to the understanding and change of our reality.

Keywords:
Frantz Fanon; Ignacio Martín-Baró; war; mental health; political psychology