Systemic Action of the Psychologist with Families in Judicial Conflict: Serving People and Transforming Lives

Abstract

This article is part of the doctoral thesis The systemic action of the psychologist in family courts, defended in march 2020. The purpose here is to present one of the strands of the research, the systemic view, whose focus started from the premise that it is through this view that the psychologist (expert, technical assistant, mediator and therapist) can broadly understand the demands brought to the Family Courts and effectively contribute to the Justice System. Considering the researcher’s family and professional experiences (intersubjectivity), as well as statements of law-makers (judges, prosecutors and lawyers), experienced in this area of activity, the study demonstrated that the systemic view can, in fact, contribute to a complex, non-dichotomized, reading of the families in dispute and provide a joint and transformative construction for other possibilities, allowing an inter and transdisciplinary dialogue between psychology and justice.