Abstract
This article critically analyzes the 20 years of Resolution nº 01/1999 of the Federal Council of Psychology. This document regulates the professional exercise on sexual orientation; more precisely, it prohibits pathologization and discrimination practices, and also encourages confronting prejudice and violence. Firstly, we discuss how the resolution has been subject of legislative and judiciary actions, despite its immense visibility, political power and capacity to guarantee human rights - or, perhaps, precisely because of them. Then, we analyze the purpose of such actions – to authorize practices trying to reverse homosexuality: they do have not basis in current psychological knowledge, configuring a torture exercise and producing intense suffering and illness. Subsequently, we discuss challenges and possibilities for ethical psychological practices with homosexualities in different fields (education, justice and health policy) confronting pathologizations. Finally, we use the critical criminology to question the Federal Supreme Court decision on the LGBTIphobia criminalization, in dialogue with the Resolution’s effects. We conclude that even if this document did not eliminate LGBTIphobia practices, is a relevant strategy for psychology to ensure human rights.
Psychology; Homosexuality; LGBTIphobia; Psychology Resolution 01/1999