A PSICOTERAPIA COMO CENÁRIO SOCIAL DE PRODUÇÃO DE SENTIDO

Abstract

The following work, as it focus the continuous and processual development of the human being in the psychotherapeutic setting, aims to understand the production of new senses in the person subjective configuration, from the dialogical relationship that is established between psychotherapist and client. Inherent in the human condition, the production of sense takes place in the relational symbolic space and in spite of its subjective and singular feature it is permeated by the individual s culture and history. Based on the subjectivity theory proposed by González Rey, categories like subject, production of sense and subjectivity (individual and social), compose the theoretical reference upon which the research is made. The principles of qualitative epistemology that guided all the steps of the investigation highlight the importance of the dialogical spaces in the production of knowledge. The study of two clinical cases results in a process of knowledge that reaffirms the psychotherapy as a legitimate social scene of scientific investigation about the human development, showing that the established relation helped the researched subjects to promote meaningful transformations in their relational spaces.