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Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría
Print version ISSN 0034-7450
Abstract
BUILES-CORREA, María Victoria; ANDERSON-GOMEZ, María Teresa and ARANGO-ARBELAEZ, Beatriz Helena. Becoming another: Transformations in the therapist who works with gay and lesbian couples,. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2017, vol.46, n.1, pp.12-21. ISSN 0034-7450.
Objective:
To recognise the changes experienced by the therapist who works with gay and lesbian couples.
Method:
Qualitative with biographical-narrative method. Seven therapists were interviewed in Medellin.
Results:
Three moments in the life trajectory of the participants were identified: Before: close ness and distances between families and the school were found (distances, makes reference, among others, to discourses about homosexuality). During: showed the conspiracy of silence in the undergraduate and postgraduate training of therapists, and in the clinical approach with homosexual couples they perceive in the reasons for consultation, a spectrum between everyday conflict and imposed exclusion. After: makes reference to the changes that this clinical work has generated in them, how they have become different, while others have been defined as: political subjects who resist normalisation and become learners of artistic territories and artisans of their own lives.
Conclusions:
The task of becoming another is a poetic, aesthetic and ethical process like the beautiful creation of the own existence. These transformations are connected with presence, social, politic and artistic contexts, reflexive labour and criticism about themselves.
Keywords : Therapist; Lesbians; Gays; Clinic.