THE RETROSPECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY:: A FOLLOW UP

• Autor(a) principal: Ð’. Gomes, William
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17086

In September and november of 1986, eight women and twomen, all students, with ages ranging from 21 to 26, in psychological treatment,described trough interview their perception about psychotherapeuticchange. They considered their experience as positive and identified theresults in terms of changes in the way to deal with their problems, changesin the knowledge of themselves and changes in their interpersonalrelations. After two years, the same persons were interviewed again.Then, it was found that from seven that were in treatment one interrupted its psychotherapy to do psychoanalysis, three terminated their treatment,one had an episode of hospitalization, and one is still in treatment. Onethat had terminated his treatment reported some crises episode and onethat had interrupted it returned to analysis. It was not possible to find twoof them. The results, using criteria of qualitative analysis, support thepremise of the original study that the therapeutic experience is criticallyperceived and evaluated by the patient. The conclusions are supported,also, by the consistence found between the description thematic contentand the theoretical considerations of the literature.