Psicoterapia, uma “estrela solitária”? Outras versões dessa prática sob o enfoque da Teoria ator-rede

Abstract

Can we affirm psychotherapy as a solitary practice as a hegemonic version, in the training of psychologists and psychotherapists? The proposition that guides this research is to investigate the idea so widespread among psychologists that psychotherapy is a solitary practice. Without pretending to arrive at a simple yes or no, or true or false, this research aims to follow this question in its multiple versions. Inspired by the Cosmology research of the Brazilian scientist Marcelo Gleiser, this investigation has the stars as a metaphor, thus establishing a writing policy that marks the articulation of our existence as part of a totality, as intrinsically related to all existing life forms. Moreover, this writing is grounded with Actor Network Theory (TAR), with the studies of feminist researchers, with the ethical-political approach of researchCOM (Moraes, 2010), and by the aesthetics of research as a handmade process (Quadros, 2015). The version of psychotherapy as a solitary practice is articulated, in this research, with four stories that emerged in and with the field: the story of a solitary star, the story of articulated stars, the story of a situated star, and the story of a silent star. Following the linkages and clashes between the actors, the research walks with such stories in their associations, stabilizations, and destabilizations. With each of these stories, what is at stake is the possibility of broadening the perception about the version of psychotherapy as a solitary practice and accessing many other versions that accompany it. Through the course of the research, it was possible to see that the version of psychotherapy as a solitary practice is performed in many different ways, it sustains itself linked with many versions, some of them very different from each other. Each one of these versions is performed by the relation of cultural, historical, social, economic, political aspects, among others. And, in this research, it was possible to get to know and explore some of them. The research ends with an invitation to those who, also sensitized by the version of psychotherapy as a solitary practice, when they come across this version here and there, may remember this journey inspired by the stars.