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[Becoming Another: Transformations in the Therapist Who Works with Gay and Lesbian Couples]
María Victoria Builes Correa1, María Teresa Anderson Gómez2, Beatriz Helena Arango Arbeláez3
1Maestría en Terapia Familiar y de Pareja, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
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: closeness 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 normalization 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.
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