The crisis of clinical psychology in today’s world

• Autor(a) principal: PORTELA, Marco Antônio
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6978
• topic: Crise; Pós-modernidade; Psicologia clínica; Subjetividade; Crises; Postmodernism; Clinical psychology; Subjectivity

The text considers that the contemporary world is determining new forms of relationships, which affect the constitution of subjectivity and, consequently, lead to the advent of a new type of individual. An analysis was performed with the aim of understanding exactly who this post-modern individual is. In the study carried out concerning the progression of clinical psychology, it is concluded that its principal approach is individualist, confirming the dominant paradigm, in other words, the paradigm of subjectivity, that has led to the escalation of individualism in the post-modern period. The text seeks to analyze the contemporary clinical crisis in order to understand its causes, and attempts to findviable solutions for the impasses which this crisis presents. The study is predicated upon the idea that a new vision of the world and of man himself is now under construction, a vision which points to concepts such as inter-subjectivity, dialogue, narrative, and ecology, among others. It was not, however, the purpose of this text to explore these concepts.