Resumen

PARKER, Ian. Deconstructing therapeutic discourse: identity and interiority. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.40, pp. 431-442. ISSN 1519-549X.

This paper draws on the 'social constructionist' approaches in psychology and allied disciplines which question the truth claims made by academics and professionals about how our minds work and the way we behave. Part of the project of critical research in psychology that is concerned with the social construction of psychological and psychotherapeutic phenomena is to look at the broader cultural conditions in which we speak about these things. Therapeutic discourse, according to this perspective, needs to be analysed in the context of 'psychological culture'. The paper develops an analysis of therapeutic discourse to understand how the identity of psychotherapists is performed. Deconstruction of identity in psychotherapy is in this way also turned to the task of deconstructing the notions of interiority that sustain psychotherapy in contemporary psychological culture.

Palabras clave : Therapy; discourse; deconstruction; identity; interiority.

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