Compreensões acerca da identidade do profissional de psicologia em instituições públicas de saúde mental em Sobral/ce.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the understandings about the identity of Psychology professionals in public mental health institutions in the city of Sobral-CE. Based on the qualitative research methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with psychologists who work in public Mental Health services, users over eighteen years of age attended by psychologists and professionals from other categories who also work in these services. The data analysis process was performed according to Dilthey's Hermeneutics, using interviews to uncover the analytical categories that were addressed in the course of the research. This work brings the elements that appeared in the discourses and through these we can understand how is perceived the identity of psychologists in this context, starting from their ways of acting, ideas that make up the identity and factors that help. It was identified that the discourses are diverse and demonstrate that the doing and being of this professional category is multiple and is constantly changing, being a dynamic process.