Abstract

SANTOS, Danielle de Gois  and  SA, Roberto Novaes de. The existence as "care": phenomenological elaborations on psychotherapy in contemporaneity. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.1, pp. 53-59. ISSN 1809-6867.

This paper addresses some existential notions elaborated by Heidegger in his Analytic of Existence, emphasizing the existential "care" and its possible implications for psychotherapeutic nowadays. We use the work Being and Time and Zollikon Seminars, especially the section entitled "Conversations with Medard Boss." Phenomenologically, a clinic is interested in the senses invested by man in his everyday existence. In these everyday experiences, exercises of surprising and meditation on the meanings of relationships are rare, however, the experience of mental illness invites reflection on existence. In a clinical of existential-phenomenological inspiration, this reflection may be guided by the ontological constituents "care" and "freedom." Heidegger says that man is "care" because he "cares" ontologically about himself and the other beings, making them appear. Although, we are essentially free, daily we seem distracted to our own "potentiality-for-being", and be vulnerable to the beliefs and impersonal thoughts. Understanding the correlativeness between man, world and existence as care in that ontological sense, involves transforming the look, reversing technical concerns and effectiveness in resolving symptoms to the plane of the ethics and existential singling possibilities.

Keywords : Psychotherapy; Existentialism; Phenomenology; Freedom; Care.

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