Clínica com mulheres: o percurso afetivo de uma psicóloga em formação inspirada pela Gestalt-terapia

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to discuss the experience of constructing a clinical practice in psychology, guided by the affects produced in the encounter of a novice psychologist with her field of work with women. The notion of field-theme (Spink, 2008) is adopted to highlight the field of research as a network of sociabilities, closer to the understanding of an existential territory than a geographic space. We understand the clinic in a different way from that forged by a tradition of modern thought that also establishes subject-object positions for psychological practices. Following another path, we understand the clinic as expanded, a complex and relational activity in which multiple actors affect each other. Being affected implies taking risks, adopting a receptive stance to deal with the unexpected, with what presents itself on our path and that challenges our certainties. This research, therefore, converts the embarrassments, doubts, surprises and misunderstandings that a young psychologist encountered into raw material for her process of (trans)formation. The aim is to give due value to the knowledge that comes from experience (Larrosa, 2015) in the form of knowledge that is not intended to be generalizable, but rather to compose with the vicissitudes of life that pulsate in our fields of professional activity, whether clinical or scientific research. To this end, we establish alliances with the assumptions of Gestalt therapy, a clinical approach whose emphasis on the sensitive dimension of experience has been an inspiring reference for the author since her undergraduate studies in Psychology. Furthermore, the theoretical-methodological framework of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), PesquisarCOM (Moraes, 2010) and Artisanal Research (Quadros 2011, 2015) provide the necessary support for the construction of an affected research. In chapter 1, the author's trajectory is recovered from her first steps, which include the hesitations surrounding the professional choice of Psychology until her entry into a multidisciplinary residency program in health. Next, in chapter 2, entitled Sewing a path: PesquisandoCOM gestalt-therapy, actor-network theory and other partnerships, the author presents her theoretical-methodological framework that seeks not to systematically describe the concepts, but to show how the encounter with them made it possible to assume the experience. Next, we discuss a writing policy for the research in question. Finally, through clinical excerpts that stage challenges and surprises, both in the meetings of young psychologists with women, users of the health service, and with their partners from other professional categories that make up the team, the affected experiences are presented and discussed.