Second Person Perspective in Psychotherapy: the phenomenological innovations of Carl Rogers

• Autor(a) principal: Stenzel, Lucia Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Gomes, William Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/39998
• topic: abordagem centrada na pessoa; empatia; incondicionalidade; campo fenomenal; aplicações fenomenológicas; person-centered approach; empathy; unconditionality; phenomenal field; phenomenological applications

The study points out and analyzes the clinical and scientific innovations that Carl Rogers introduced to psychotherapy. The focus is on the role of intersubjectivity, here understood as a second-person perspective, but without disregarding the perspectives from third-person (experimental evidence) and first-person (experiential experience). The study argues that the relevance given to intersubjectivity, non-directivity, and openness to experience testifies to the confluence between Rogers and the phenomenological movement. Such confluence is enhanced by examining facts and phenomena from multiple perspectives, guided by phenomenological ethics. In this sense, the mistake in the comparisons between Rogers' theory and phenomenology lies in taking as a starting point a given definition of phenomenology, and not the experience and description of phenomenal events. Finally, it shows how Rogers' scientific studies find resonances in contemporary phenomenological research applied to psychology.