A crack in the dominant cis-heteropatriarchal psychology, an escape route from the ableist, white, and neoliberal logic that prevails in most mental health systems.
This book is a crack in the dominant cis-heteropatriarchal psychology, an escape route from the ableist, white, and neoliberal logic that prevails in most mental health systems. To achieve this, it values a psychotherapy that emphasizes an intersectional and queer psycho-sociopolitical analysis to raise awareness of the different systems of oppression (sexism, LGTBIQ+phobia, misogyny, racism, classism, fatphobia, and ableism) that shape our subjectivities and identifications. The goal is to help the person experience a process of psychological and sociopolitical emancipation that allows them to develop a life aligned with their emotional needs, without automatically reproducing the social norms that condition us or the identity labels that sometimes become invisible cages causing significant psychological distress.
Queer psychotherapy is not limited to applying knowledge associated with psychology or critical psychoanalysis but draws from various fields such as philosophy, education, and sociology. It aims to use all available resources to facilitate the best possible psychic quality of life by intervening in the cis-heteropatriarchal perspective in which we have been socialized, to free the multiple dimensions and nuances that exist, and to achieve greater agency in the course of our lives. This process necessarily involves establishing alliances between individuals who care for and support each other equally and affectionately.
