The Sexual Diversity Debate in Brazilian Psychology

Professional Regulation at Stake

Bibliographic Data

ID5314810
AuthorsCleber Michel Ribeiro De Macedo (0000-0002-1817-7475, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Horacio Federico Sívori (0000-0003-0103-1127, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Year2019
Volume39
Issuespe3
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsicologia Ciência e Profissão (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-9893 • E-ISSN: 1982-3703
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1982-3703003228496
OpenAlexW3025539592
SCIELO_PIDS1414-98932019000700302
LanguageEN
References cited8

So-called "sexual reorientation therapies" represent a challenge to the scientific and professional development of Psychology, and to the exercise and free expression of sexual orientation as a human right. Since 1999 the Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology (CFP) has implemented a ban against the pathologization of homosexuality. The validity of that normative instrument, known as Resolution 01/99, has been contested by moral entrepreneurs within the profession, self-identified as Evangelical Christians, who pose a broader challenge to Psychology, standing as a secular, science-based profession. The controversy created by the challenge to CFP's positions on homosexuality and on religion extrapolates the domain of Psychology and its regulation as a science and profession, and becomes one more dispute related to sexual politics in Brazil. In this paper we explore the process by which sexual diversity has become a contentious issue for Brazilian Psychology, affecting the politics and regulation of the profession

Homosexuality · Normative · Political science · Politics · Professional psychology · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Sexuality, and Education · Law · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Religion and Society in Latin America · Social Psychology

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