THE RETROSPECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY:: AN EMPIRICAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

• Autor(a) principal: Ð’. Gomes, William
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: С Reck, Adriana, R. Ganzo, Christiane
• 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/17046

There is a great controversy about the nature and quality ofpsychotherapeutic experience. However, it is unknown if the problem lieson therapeutic effectiveness or on the methods used to study these modalities of psychological intervention. This study concentrates on the qualityof therapeutic experience as critically perceived by the person andmanifested on her/his speech. Eight women and two men, all students,with ages ranging from 21 to 26, being 3 in psychoanalytic psychotherapy,2 in lacanian analysis, 2 in analytical psychotherapy, 1 in psychodrama, 1in bioenergetic, and 1 in transactional analysis describe their experiences.The descriptions, obtained by topic interview, were separated by themesand hermeneutical interpreted. The results showed, among other aspects,that the experience of being in psychotherapy is considered by these personsas positive; changes related with perceptions of oneself, of othersand their problems ocurred during the period. However, they did not knowwhen and how. The difference among treatments is perceived, mainly, inthe kind of relation developed with the therapist and not with the kind oftherapeutic results. The study also exemplifies the pertinence of qualitativecriteria to this modality of investigation.