Neutralidade na relação terapêutica - reflexões a partir da abordagem gestáltica

• Main Author: Mariana Miranda Autran Sampaio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2014-07-01
• Series: Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia
• Subjects: Therapeutic relationship; Neutrality; Phenomenology; Gestalt-therapy.
• Online Access: http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-52672004000100005&lng=pt&nrm=iso

This paper intends to contemplate the theme of psychologist neutrality in clinician practice, discussing its feasibility and necessity. Its objective is to reflect about psychologist's action as a therapist and as human being in the psycotherapic practice. If the neutrality seams to be too distant and unattainable, on the other hand, a psychologist that talks about his or her life, using the therapy setting with his or her own problems, feelings and opinions would be inopportune as well. Gestalt-therapy uses phenomenology as human seeing and as a method, taking its concepts to clinician practice. This way, it establishes some concepts, founded on phenomenology, humanism and existentialism that give a direction to the psychologist’s practice.