Abstract
This study aimed to understand the discursive practice of psychologists regarding the psychological practice in the approach to STI/HIV-AIDS in specialized services in a city of Bahia. To do so, we conducted nine semi-structured interviews with professionals related to health public services. The theoretical-methodological perspective of social constructionist psychology inspired the process of information production and analysis. The results pointed towards important ruptures and resignifications of the linguistic repertoires created in the everyday health practices (lived time and short time), attentive to the needs of the contexts of practice, although elements of traditional psychology training are also used to characterize the work in these contexts. In the surveyed services, the psychologists have been noticing and recognizing biological and social demands, which indicate objective aspects of the users’ experience (less adept to individualistic values). This fact points towards a contextualization in the psychological work in the public health field, although not all interviewed psychologists admit that this type of demand should also be addressed by psychology professionals. From a theoretical point of view, we started from reflections on the notions of amplified clinic and the collective psychological practice resulting in the concept of amplified psychological clinic that relates to specificities of the psychological work in the field of HIV-AIDS. In this respect, the amplified psychological clinic is in potential construction, approaching and retreating from what would be a developed practice contextualized and committed to the subjective processes of people living with HIV-AIDS or trying to protect themselves in concrete vulnerable situations, which produces psychosocial suffering.
Keywords:
Psychological practice; STI/HIV-AIDS; Amplified clinic; Social psychology; Discursive practice