Abstract

CORBELLA, Silvia. Encounters and solitude in our time. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.3, pp.149-167. ISSN 0486-641X.

Adolescence, love and old age as transition stages are more difficult to face in contemporary world than they were in other historical moments. Group therapists have the task of accepting the challenge of those cycles of life and avoiding privatization of difficult moments - accepting unhappiness as inevitable though possible to overcome. Anger and laughter, recollection, forgetting and forgiveness, feelings that are possible in a therapeutic group, may offer a wider social group an exit from harsh times and darkness. Global society nowadays might be compared to a port community: in several cultures the harbor is a metaphor of shelters and rooms that favor the integration between settlement conditions (care, ability to wait, loving the environment) and nomadic conditions (tenacity, hoSPItality, courage, freedom and narrative memory).

Keywords : Encounter; Solitude; Adolescence; Love; Old age; Anger; Laughter; Therapeutic group; Port community.

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