Identidades fetichizadas e a fala do especialista: reflexões sobre a convocação do psicólogo para a legitimação de (id)entidades "doentes"

Abstract

This article discusses the concept of identity from the perspective of Critical Social Psychology, reflecting how this concept helps understanding the influence of diagnosis on the construction of stigmatized identities. Means choosing a conception of identity as a metamorphosis, as proposed by Ciampa, thus questioning the status assigned to a psychologist, to classify subjects and frame them as users of a public health policy. It discusses how these interventions, which the other is nominated by someone who has the supposed knowledge about their identity, contributing to a recognition perverse instead of promoting autonomy and health. We conclude the article by proposing a psychological practice focused on the potential of the subject, capable of making a break with discourse instituted – even one that is supposed promoter of alterity, but ends promoting an inclusion perverse – and present a postconventional recognition able to transform radically the relationship psychologist / patient.