Abstract

ALVIM, Monica Botelho. Gestalt Therapy at the Boundary: Otherness and Recognition as Care. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.spe, pp. 880-895. ISSN 1808-4281.

The article proposes a discussion about the challenges of the Gestalt Therapy clinic in working with socially invisible populations, approaching, from its notion of contact boundary, the themes of alterity and recognition as constitutive of a clinical care action in this context. From interdisciplinary dialogues, especially with perspectives from the field of philosophy, the paper proposes a brief critical analysis of the contemporary situation, pointing to the relations between boundaries of rights, social and existential invisibility, and then proposing a clinical action based on an ethics of otherness and  transformation that promotes a clinical work that happens in the frontier, in the encounter with those invisible populations and trying to show what affects them without showing itself. It presents the general outlines of a clinical work with youths who live in slums, calling into question the rights and place of the state so that recognition can be fully exercised and its dimension of empowering the agency realized. It concludes by considering the work with otherness and recognition as a form of care that allows rescuing the agency capacity from an expanded clinical action for the slum situation in its micro and macro political dimensions.

Keywords : social invisibility; expanded clinic; human rights; art; body.

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