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AITA, Elis Bertozzi  e  FACCI, Marilda Gonçalves Dias. Psychotherapy and the Process of Consciousness Formation: A Historical-Cultural Analysis. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, e12328.  Epub 05-Dez-2025. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i2.e12328.

This article presents the possibility of individual psychotherapeutic intervention for adults based on Historical-Cultural Psychology. Among other possibilities, we understand that Vygotskian psychology offers a basis for the psychotherapeutic interventions elaboration that aims to act on the subject's consciousness formation process. Some assumptions guided the analysis of the theme, as shown below: consciousness is conceptualized as a psychic reflection of reality; all higher psychological functions act in the complex process of capturing reality, in the transformation of sensory information into processes of abstraction in the form of concepts; in the process of consciousness formation, the cognitive and affective aspects compose a dialectical unit, which is formed from the interpsychological to the intrapsychological plan; and the health-disease process, which is understood linked to historical and cultural conditions, as well as psychic suffering is understood from its genesis in the critical processes of social life. From this, we discuss some propositions that can support the psychotherapeutic practice that aims to work on the process of consciousness formation. From this, we discuss some propositions that can support the psychotherapeutic practice that aims to work on the process of consciousness formation. The psychologist's intervention turns to the analysis of the subject's history, in its constitutive individual and social processes which take place within the capitalist society, and seeks to understand the movement of consciousness formation and psychic suffering, which is established from the singular-particular-universal dialectic dynamics; aiming to apprehend how the critical processes of social life, historically constituted, engendered the suffering experienced. Thus, such intervention makes it possible for the subject to become aware of the historical and social relations that determine the person, how the social reality constitutes oneself, and what is the person’s active role in this process. Based on Vygotsky, we understand that becoming aware of the relationships that corroborate to constitute the individual's consciousness, and suffering provides the subject with new conditions for coping with his psychic suffering.

Palavras-chave : psychotherapy; consciousness formation; historical-cultural psychology; Vygotsky; clinical psychology.

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