Homossexualidades nas pesquisas em pós-graduação em psicologia: da despatologização à luta por direitos

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Sposito, Sandra Elena [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Homossexuais; Sexo (Psicologia); Identidade sexual; Homossexualidade - Despatologização; Sex (Psychology)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136106

This research investigated the thesis and dissertations produced in the ambit of postgraduation in Psychology in Brazil in the period from 1999 to 2010, which presented as main theme the homosexualities. The main objective was to identify relevant aspects of knowledge production about this theme, such as: main research centers, prevailing theoretical and methodological models, most frequent focus of studies, conceptions about the practice of the psychologist facing the demands raised by homosexualities. The theoretical perspectives adopted to transit through the field of homosexualities in Psychology were supported by Foucault and authors who dialogue with his work, and also the contributions of the gender studies. The Foucaultian genealogical methodology guided the investigative paths of this study, laying the foundations to the systematization of the data from the format of a state of art research, mapping a knowledge area from a temporal and thematic cutting. The results found indicated that the researches about the homosexualities are predominantly conducted in post-graduation programs located in the southeast/south axis of the country; in the period studied there was a growth in the number of thesis and dissertations about the theme; there are sub-themes related to homosexualities that stood out in the amount of researches, which are: the family-marital, the homosexual identity and the prejudice-discrimination. The analysis of the collected data indicated that the conceptions about homosexualities in Psychology did not present an essentialist bias, nor a biologizing one, and neither were guided by the investigation of the causes of the homosexual behavior or desire. There was a predominance of Foucaultian referential in what regards the sexuality from the concept of the apparatus of sexuality. It was also noticed a prevalence of references to the category of identity as a way to map, name...