El Ejercicio de la Psicología en un País Extraño: Un Análisis desde las Representaciones Sociales de un Grupo de Psicólogos Migrantes

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the SR social representations of a group of migrant psychologists about their professional practice in another country. For this, there were four psychologists who practice the profession outside of Colombia. Thus, from a qualitative approach and through in-depth interviews, a meaning matrix with lines of inquiry, a descriptive and analytical content analysis, it is concluded with three forms of social knowledge that constitute the representational field: Intersubjective, Transversal and Intrasubjective. Conflicts that concern the Intrasubjective with respect to the psychologist's identity as an agent of social transformation compared to the Intersubjective with practices of competition and individualism were found; Likewise, the psychological institution with critical intentions and creative solutions comes into conflict with the impetus of the globalizing ambition of the labor market and the academy, which is collected from the Transversal field.