Algumas reflexões acerca da psicoterapia daseinsanalítica com pacientes psiquiátricos

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about Daseinsanalytical (or existential-phenomenological) based psychotherapeutic practice with psychiatric patients. These reflections have developed from my practice as a clinical supervisor, where the difficulties of burgeoning therapists dealing with patients in psychiatric treatment manifest themselves. In order to do so, this article reviews the history of phenomenology in psychiatry, focusing on the case of a patient presented by Minkowski, differentiating psychiatry, psychopathology and psychotherapy. Although the boundaries of these scientific areas overlap, they are essentially different in terms of their objectives. Psychiatry is a form of therapy (in the etymological sense of therapeia), and psychopathology is a science that supports psychiatry. The article discusses the aim of psychotherapy. To be with a patient as a psychotherapist is to nurture existential freedom. The patient is not a psychopathological case. The patient is always an existential being.