Expressões de identidade, historicidade e sexualidade na clínica sócio-histórica: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present work is inserted in the activities developed by the Laboratory of Health and Sexuality Studies (LESSEX), specifically the clinical work under the critical perspective of Socio-Historical Psychology (PSH). The objective of this study is to explain, from a psychotherapeutic process, the reasoning and clinical management according to the following categories: historicity, identity, gender identity and sexuality. PSH assumes that the subject is active, participant in its development process. In this process, it is able to appropriate the multiple determinations that are expressed in its actions, feelings and thinking, being able to develop a reflection and self-awareness, which allow to break with the alienation processes in which it is inserted in its sociais and personal environment. In this perspective, the power of individuals is privileged based on the analysis of their psychological suffering. Two case studies are presented, accompanied by a pair of therapists, over the course of a year. The analysis of the cases was guided by the qualitative methodology from the categories that proposed to investigate the results