Psi knowledge and gender: narratives of psychologist and psychiatrists based on the transformations around the rights and demands of the sexual dissidence movements in Argentina

Abstract

Based on a research study about how psi knowledge describe and interpreted therapeutic processes regarding gender and sexuality, this paper analyze the narratives of professionals around their experiences about this topic based on the transformations in these themes in Argentina. That is, this article analyze intern psi debates taking into account that this discipline constitute technologies based on a specific way to study gender and to intervene in processes of subjectification. Social and legal changes about sexuality and gender affect psi knowledge because, from the narratives of professionals, these transformations are seen as something “new” and as a “novelty”. For this study, a qualitative methodology was used, and the technique was the analysis drawn from 30 interviews with psychologists/psychiatrists from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.