Psychology and Rural Contexts (PDF)

Jáder Ferreira Leite is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. He is a member of the Latin American Network of Rural Psychology and is the coordinator of the research group Modes of Subjectivation, Public Policies and Contexts of Vulnerability of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He graduated in psychology at the State University of Paraíba, Brazil, and holds a PhD in social psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He holds a PQ2 productivity grant from CNPq and develops research in the field of social psychology based on the following themes: social movements and gender relations in rural contexts and production of meaning about family agriculture.



Magda Dimenstein is a full professor in the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. She holds a degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil and a PhD in Mental Health from the Psychiatry Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She did postdoctoral training in Mental Health at the Universidad Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and in Collective Health at the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. She works in the area of collective health with emphasis on mental health, primary and psychosocial care, in urban and rural settings. She is a member of the research group Modes of Subjectivation, Public Policies and Contexts of Vulnerability of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and holds a productivity grant PQ1A from CNPq.



Candida Dantas is an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Psychology at the same institution. She holds a bachelor's and a master's