Collective health and social psychology of praxis: an interdisciplinary path for metaformation in graduate studies

Abstract

This article is based on the understanding of interdisciplinarity as a way to act against the fragmented visions present in the processes of  knowledge production and socialization. The objective is to share reflections that problematize  interdisciplinarity from the experience of graduate  academic training in a research group whose  members have diverse training and professional fields and focus on the relationships between public policy,  health and human needs. The reflections were based  on issues that emerged during the group’s systematic  meetings, and the group was understood as a  theoretical and methodological strategy, and was  sustained by the dialogue between collective health  as a field of knowledge and practice, and the social  psychology of praxis, formulated by Enrique Pichon- Rivière.
The articulating axis of this experience is training in its broadest sense, manifested on the principle of
the inseparability of (i.e., learning-research-doing) and as self-training in a mutual process of reflective
teaching-research-outreach action, of learning how to learn. In this sense, it is argued that it is a metatraining that can only take place from the perspective of knowledge dialogues and interdisciplinarity