Resumen

FRANCA, Demétrius. Group therapeutic accompaniment: an alternative in mental health. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.91, pp. 329-339. ISSN 1415-711X.

Brazil's conception of Acompanhamento Terapêutico ("Therapeutic Accompaniment") emerged and developed inspired both by practices arising from Argentina and spontaneously, initially in support of psychiatric and psychoanalytic practice for patients who did not adapt to conventional care and admission procedures. The fact that it remains unregulated by any professional standards to date and the diffuse origins of the unconventional concept have led to/facilitated the emergence of a multiplicity of practices and practitioners of Therapeutic Accompaniment, each using varied approaches with distinct therapeutic goals based on different theoretical psychology backgrounds (but predominantly psychoanalytic theory). Over the past decades, Therapeutic Accompaniment evolved and matured, accumulating knowledge and becoming an independent, differentiated form of therapeutic care that can be offered alternatively to other practices and generally yields specific results. Group Therapeutic Accompaniment, which integrates the results of this maturing process, introduces shared experiences among members of the group into the context of the practice. Considering that the concept is still unknown by many health professionals, the results of a Group Therapeutic Accompaniment practice held in a private health clinic in a Brazilian city, are an important opening into the possibilities of this alternative therapy. Data were collected through action research focusing on the perspective of the researcher, who described the group phenomena observed through the theory of genesis and group dynamics of Kurt Lewin. The phenomenon-structural psychopathology of Eugène Minkowski is also used as a framework for individual understanding of the time and space experiences lived by the activity's participants

Palabras clave : Genesis and group dynamics; phenomenology; psychopathology; therapeutic accompaniment; group therapeutic accompaniment.

        · resumen en Español | Portugués     · texto en Portugués     · Portugués ( pdf )