Descortinando o Passado para Vislumbrar o Porvir: da Gestalt-Terapia à Abordagem Gestáltica no Brasil 40 anos de histórias

• Autor(a) principal: Esch, Cristiane Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15421
• topic: Gestalt Therapy in Brazil. Gestalt approach in Brazil. History. writing in Gestal Therapy in Brazil; Gestalt-Terapia no Brasil; Abordagem Gestáltica no Brasil; História; Produção escrita em Gestal-Terapia no Brasil; Gestalt-terapia Brasil História; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::FUNDAMENTOS E MEDIDAS DA PSICOLOGIA::HISTORIA, TEORIAS E SISTEMAS EM PSICOLOGIA

This paper is about the history and development of Gestalt therapy in Brazil. It takes as its starting point the rescue and the influence of his founders for the edification of his theory and practice, enhanced by the transformations in psychology during the twentieth century. Emphasizes the American context and the period of the counterculture as the moment when the Gestalt therapy achieves notoriety, and now occupies a space next to the recognized range of psychotherapies. Finally discusses its reception in Brazil, considering the historical elements that have allowed their arrival, especially the socio-political situation and of psychology as a science and politics in the 1970s. Discusses the initial development of this approach in our country, presenting the various moments and stages of Gestalt therapy in Brazil, and on its growth and diffusion as a theory and practice psychotherapy. It is used as a method written in the production area, mainly from the election of three study categories: Articles published in journals specialized in Gestalt therapy, articles published in general journals and, finally, dissertations and theses produced under the referential of gestalt. Finally, observe that the path taken by Gestalt therapy led to its expansion to other areas of psychology, in an expansion of its scope of action beyond the boundaries of clinical psychology and psychotherapy practice. This fact justified the routine use of the term gestalt approach as representative of this expansion. It is concluded that Gestalt therapy and Gestalt approach presents a theoretical and practical possibilities that allow you to meet and contribute to psychology today, especially the possibility to address and intervene in social issues, toward building a better world