Psicoterapia psicoanalítica

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to analyze one of the most important practices of the psychoanalytic orientation: psychotherapy, as a possible answer, among others, to the question about the connections between psychology and psychoanalysis. For this, we present some background of psychotherapy, we propose a definition of the concept, we present two main types for the understanding of psychotherapeutic purposes (ascetical and symptomal), and we mention some similarities and differences departing from three categories in which we locate different psychotherapeutic approaches: 1) the psychological knowledge and the transfer of information to the consultant 2) the therapeutic relationship and 3) the transmission of an analytical attitude to the patient. This paper parts of a pluralistic and non-dogmatic point of view in order to establish both similarities (overall) and differences (particularities) in psychotherapeutic approaches. We show how psychotherapy dates back to the philosophical tradition of soul caring (therapeuein heauton), both in a specific sense (symptomal) and an overall sense (subjective ascesis). We consider that psychotherapeutic focusing, more pertinent in symptomal psychotherapies, is not an opposition or an obstacle for an exhaustive revision of the patient’s life. This article favors, of the different approaches for the psychotherapeutic work, that one based on the transmission of an (analytical) attitude as a way to face one’s life; in consequence, we take distance from the conception of clinical psychology as the application of psychological knowledge to the clinical domain.

• Autores: Lopera Echavarría, Juan Diego
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/8960
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/8960
• Palabra clave: Psicoterapia; Psicoanálisis; Psicología; Psicoterapeutas; Terapia psicoanalítica; Psychotherapy; Psychotherapists; Psychoanalysis; Psychology
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/