title: [Becoming Another: Transformations in the Therapist Who Works with Gay and Lesbian Couples].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To recognise the changes experienced by the therapist who works with gay and lesbian couples.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative with biographical-narrative method. Seven therapists were interviewed in Medellin.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three moments in the life trajectory of the participants were identified: Before: closeness and distances between families and the school were found (distances, makes reference, among others, to discourses about homosexuality. During: showed the conspiracy of silence in the undergraduate and postgraduate training of therapists, and in the clinical approach with homosexual couples they perceive in the reasons for consultation, a spectrum between everyday conflict and imposed exclusion. After: makes reference to the changes that this clinical work has generated in them, how they have become different, while others have been defined as: political subjects who resist normalization and become learners of artistic territories and artisans of their own lives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The task of becoming another is a poetic, aesthetic and ethical process like the beautiful creation of the own existence. These transformations are connected with presence, social, politic and artistic contexts, reflexive labour and criticism about themselves.
authors.affiliation: Maestría en Terapia Familiar y de Pareja, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Electronic address: mbuilescorrea@gmail.com.
authors.forename: María Victoria
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Builes Correa
authors.affiliation: Psicóloga-Especialista en Terapia Familiar, Medellín, Colombia.
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Anderson Gómez
authors.affiliation: Médica-Terapeuta Familiar, Medellín, Colombia.
authors.forename: Beatriz Helena
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Arango Arbeláez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods
keywords: Clinic; Clínica; Gais; Gays; Lesbianas; Lesbians; Terapeuta; Therapist