Análise das concepções e práticas de psicólogas/os frente às normativas do Conselho Federal de Psicologia sobre diversidade sexual e de gênero

Abstract

Currently, the main organizations and national, international documents related to health no longer regard the homosexuality as psychopathology, but as human possibilities of affective and sexual experience. With respect to gender identity, classification manuals of disease still diagnose transgender people like “gender dysphoria” which, while pathologizing trans experiences, also allows access to technological resources that help in the corporal transition. In Brazil, Federal Council of Psychology has positioned itself in relation to psychologists practice with LGBT public through two documents, the resolution 001/99, that set regulations for psychologists actuation with regard to sexual orientation issue and the “Technical Note about the transsexualizer process and others ways of assistance to transgender people”. Both documents advocate a psychological actuation that does not pathologize homosexuality and transsexuality, breaking with medical conception who still conceives the latter as a disorder. However, various psychologists and Christian politicians claimed the return of psychology to this actuation of “healing of homosexuality”, through draft bills that are intended to suspend the resolution 001/99. Therefore, it is possible to determine competing postures between the Council and part of psychology professionals, raising doubts about how the actuations have been conducted in relation to LGBT people. Thus, this work aims identify which conceptions and professional practices are developed by psychologistis from Juiz de Fora in face of resolution number 001/99 and the “Technical Note about the transsexualizer process and others ways of assistance to transgender people”, both regulations of the Federal Council of Psychology (CFP). The research was accomplished from a qualitative methodology with exploratory character. We carried out semi-structured interviews with psychologists from Juiz de Fora, which were transcribed and analyzed from Discourse Analysis, with foucauldian focus. It was possible to verify the coexistence of ethical and prejudiced practices by professionals. Although no psychologist has advocated explicitly the pathologization of LGBT experiences or the use of "curative" practices, discourses and practices persist (re)inventing forms of abjection, naturalizing heterosexuality and cisgenerity, and placing LGBT experiences in a position of inferiority.