Abstract
This study aims to investigate the mental health need of female patient as to psychologists working in primary healthcare services in Porto Alegre - Brazil, verifying whether their psychological listening establishes associations between the psychological suffering and gender inequality experienced by the users. Based on a Narrative Focus Group methodology, a focus group with nine psychologists from Family Health services was conducted in 2017. The final narrative consists of eight argumentative nuclei: “masked suffering,” “men also suffer from this,” “several generations of female caregivers,” “that desire to set up a family at any cost,” “why do men think they can use a woman as if she were an object?,” “compulsory maternity”, “new ways of exercising sexuality,” and “the hospital took woman’s empowerment as an affront.” This study provided participants a space for collectively reflecting on themselves and on their practices.
Keywords:
Gender and Health; Psychology; Public Health; Primary Health Care; Women