Margens Clínicas (São Paulo, Brazil)
The collective Margens Clínicas was established in 2012 as an engaged response to State violence in the South East of Brazil and has since evolved into a multidimensional locus of listening, articulation, formation and dissemination of tools and information. The collective is horizontal, non-hierarchical and plural, reflecting their ethical commitment to territorial articulation.
Bringing not just demands but, and above all, the potency from the margins into the core of a psychoanalytic approach, their practice is immensely contributing to formulations of anti-racism and anti-colonialism in the clinic. Margens Clínicas is also connected with professionals from the Brazilian Public Health and Social Care services (SUS and SUAS).
In their own words: “We work so that it becomes possible to build actions that point to public policies accounting for the subjective restitution of subjects affected by violence, transforming creative capacities, forms of engagement, articulation and production of culture in the territory, as well as the recovery of protagonism, in the sense of structure the resilient capacity to build a fair, egalitarian and violence-free territory”.
Dr Kwame Yonatan Poli dos Santos was the first member of the collective to visit us at FREEPSY and we maintain close contact as Kwame and the analysts from Margens Clínicas are at the forefront of the creative reinvention of psychoanalysis in the Global South.
