| dc.description.abstract | Since the approbation of a law that recognized the Brazilian Sign Language - Libras, in 2002,
the number of psychology professionals has increased thanks to the possibility of attending the
deaf people through sign language. However, as the recognition is recent, there is a shortage of
bibliography, training opportunities and academic research on the subject. This qualitative and
exploratory study aims to analyze and discuss the performance of the bilingual psychologist in
the care of the deaf. This research was built with historical-cultural theoretical basis, especially
from Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's point of view, taking the subject as constituted by language and
social relations, with steady production and reproduction of subjective senses. The deaf, from
birth and conviviality with different languages - being one of comfort and another majoritarian
- is inevitably immersed in complex macro politics where it faces multiple ideologies, choices,
expectations, obstacles, actions imposed or offered by others. For the purpose of diving into the
lived experiences of bilingual psychologists, I proposed to develop a dialogue with them
through interviews in Libras directed to four professionals of psychology, in which they related
their experiences, challenges, possibilities and limits in the therapeutic care to the deaf person,
all of them were recorded on videotapes and translated into Portuguese. Through a set of data
collected in the interviews, I chose five circumstances in order to analyze and discuss, they
were divided into two thematic axes entitled: the relationship between the psychologist and the
language of the deaf in the therapeutic context and the challenges, possibilities and limits of
action of the psychologist in the care of the deaf person. The analyzes and considerations on
the performance of the bilingual psychologist have led to notice that there is a risk of reinforcing
the subordination of the deaf to other people's choices and, on the other hand, by favoring their
emancipation, emphasizing the importance of the bilingual psychologist comprehend the deaf
in his bilingual daily life and understand him in the social situations in which he lives and
understand how the production of subjective senses occurs in the various social, linguistic,
affective and cultural spaces. | |
