Abstract

BESOAIN ARRAU, Carolina et al. Critical-Poetic Considerations to Think about Systemic Relational Clinic: A Methodological Proposal for Psychotherapy Research. CES Psicol [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.2, pp.83-102. ISSN 2011-3080.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.12.2.7.

The relational systemic psychotherapy has problematized in recent decades its representational assumptions, moving towards new conceptualizations of psychotherapeutic experience. This article presents the work of a clinical research team that, following the theoretical approaches of Marcelo Pakman, explored the movements between micro politics and poetics through a qualitative case study methodology. Data production techniques included participant observation in unidirectional mirror of six sessions of psychotherapy, and in-depth interviews with the therapist and the patient. The material was analyzed from a dialogical approach that stressed a plural hearing of the material. This article gives full account of the methodological device and it is presented a sample of the type of clinical reflections that this methodology allows to build. Finally, there are discussed the implications and challenges of conducting a dialogical and reflexive clinical research and its value for psychotherapist training.

Keywords : Relational Systemic Psychotherapy; Research in Psychotherapy; Micro Politics; Poetics; Clinical Psychology.

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