Psychological practice and medicalization: an approach from bisexual men experiences

Abstract

Psychology as a professional field whose exercise is related to the field of health, has established guidelines of medicalization as part of its professional practice. In relation to the sexual behavior of non-heterosexual people classify them as ill or abnormal as well as involved being with their normalization. Due to the above the objective of this study was to know the exercise of psychological practice related to clinical care of bisexual men of Mexico City. Five semi-structured interviews were carried out, which were recorded, transcribed and analyzed from the perspective of grounded theory. The interviewees highlighted the questioning of their sexual orientation and medicalization as a central experience by in-service psychologists, practitioners and teachers. Evidence of the normalizing, role the educational institution and the medicalization of personnel in psychology is presented by exemplifying their professional practice immersed in the reproduction of the dominant social order.