PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONCEPTUATION FOR THE RECOGNITION, COPING AND RESTRUCTURING OF SUBJECTIVITIES
Psychological Violence; Human's Rights; Gender
In this work, reflections on psychological violence are presented, understanding the importance of conceptualization for the recognition and necessary confrontation of this type of violence so common in our society. It raises questions about the extent to which the concept is still little explored in an interdisciplinar way and even in Psychology. It is also considered as embryonic, the approach of Psychology with studies on women from a gender perspective. It is constituted as an interdisciplinary study crossing the areas of Psychology, Human Rights and Gender due to personal experience in working with women in situations of violence as a psychologist working in the Justice System. It was decided to explore, based on qualitative research, the concept of psychological violence and its perception through an interview with three psychologists with experience in assisting women in situations of violence, seeking to understand their professional experiences and coping strategies in order to relate data with the literature about the theme through literature review on the theme and with the approaches brought by the Federal Council of Psychology and Regional Council of Psychology of Bahia. It is concluded that, for the interviewees and in accordance with the explored literature, psychological violence is very frequent, with socio-cultural influences, it presents itself in a primary way, propelling other violence and often presented in an overlapping way. It was understood that the difficulties related to theoretical conceptualization mirror the dynamics inherent to this type of violence: routine, difficult to perceive, ambivalent, easy to trivialize and social “passability”, which reflects the difficulty in recognition and coping. It is understood, however, that it is possible from a committed psychological action, to fight and create strategies to restructure subjectivities.