Complex Psychotherapeutic Model for Assessment and Treatment of the Internalized Homophobia

Abstract

This article describes the construction and application of a complex psychotherapeutic model for assessment and treatment of internalized LGBT+ phobia. LGBT+ social phobia is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and internalized LGBT+ phobia affects one of its dimensions: the personal dimension. Internalized LGBT+ phobia is an illness and it affects the subjectivity of LGBT+ people. LGBT+ social phobia is a multidimensional phenomenon because it includes several dimensions: personal, interpersonal, institutional, cultural, political, social and historical. The model explained in this article is a product of the integration of some principles from psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the multi-psychotherapeutic affirmative framework of the LGBT+ condition following the principles of the narrative therapy based on Foucault’s thinking.

Keywords: complex psychotherapeutic model, LGBT+ phobia, internalized LGBT+ phobia, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, affirmative narrative psychotherapy.