O conceito de cura sob a perspectiva da abordagem gestáltica

Abstract

The present work arises from the commonly directed question to psychotherapy about its efficacy for the acquisition of a state of health and well-being parallel to that recommended by the medical model. This questioning is based on concepts whose precision reaches other meanings than those with which it communicates in the psychotherapeutic dialect. The idea of cure adopted by common sense presupposes objectively defined states of health, disease and normality, which points to an influence of positivist thinking. However, through the paths of Phenomenology and the Gestaltic Approach, the terms here mentioned adopt other meanings, since we are in the domains of knowledge that is based on the authenticity of subjectivity. What is sought to present here, therefore, is the meaning given to the notion of healing starting from an array of phenomenological and humanist thinking, for which health and disease will be concepts related to the subjective experience of each person.