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Di Leo, Pablo Francisco
Tapia, Silvia Alejandra
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Temporal Coverage
2012-2017
Idioma
spa
Extent
195 p.
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Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
2012-2017
Abstract
In the processes of socialization and identity configuration of individuals contemporary western societies experiences transformations. A nonspecific anguish that affects personal identity is generated under a climate of insecurity and uncertainty by a late modernity as a culture of risk and pluralism. The emergence of new diseases of the soul are a correlate of these processes. The global increase in the use of unconventional therapies operates in this socio-cultural context. The coexistence of heterogeneous practices and multiple expert knowledge oriented to wellbeing treatments characterize the current diversification of the psychotherapeutic offer.
This research addresses the experiences of complementarity and therapeutic integration carried out by psychologists whose careers have departed from the dominant social representation of their discipline by having integrated various alternative therapies into their practice. The research questions in this thesis are: How are the current processes of personal expansion, emergence of new forms of psychic suffering and diversification of the therapeutic offer linked with the experiences of psychologists who develop complementary and therapeutic integration practices? What characteristics do these psychologists acquire in their therapeutic practices and how do these psychologists construct their careers and professional identities? And, how do these psychologists characterize the forms of contemporary psychic suffering and their current therapeutic approaches?
In this thesis, an interpretive paradigm and a qualitative methodological strategy, specifically a biographical method, is used. Life stories technique is specifically used to construct data that will allow to rebuild the experiences and meanings given by psychologists to their therapeutic practices. There were conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 psychologists to set up descriptive data. To reconstruct the career paths of the psychologists, a thematic analysis was developed that focuses on those biographical events that encouraged their approach to various alternative therapies, the development of an integrative psychotherapeutic work and the conformation of their professional identity from their therapeutic experiences and professional practices.
The analysis of this thesis is part of the socio-cultural studies of professional life, from a constructivist and culturalist theoretical approach. This brings contributions arising from the sociology of professions into dialogue with the sociology of individuation. This conceptual integration is framed in more general debates about the identity construction and the reflexive processes of the self in late modernity. From the analysis of the data, the following emerged as significant:
a) the transformations and (re)meanings of the construction of the professional identities of the interviewee in relation to their experiences of complementarity and therapeutic integration,
b) the main characteristics of contemporary psycho-emotional suffering, identifying in the reports of the interviewees the transformations and changes in the reasons for consulting their patients throughout their professional career. Starting from the category of current reasons for consultation, I develop the native concepts of "existential crisis" and "crisis of senses" in conjunction with the idea of new diseases of the soul and the concept of self-discovery,
c) the characteristics and potentialities that the interviewees attribute their therapeutic practice starting from the native concept of well-being and the categories holistic framing, breadth, integration and therapeutic complementarity in terms of referential frameworks.
Starting from an analysis of the perspective relative to professional development and the conformation of lifestyles, the descriptions inherent to the normative ideal of self-realization as a horizon of desirable well-being, which this research addresses, account for the characteristic features of the intersection between the emergence of an integrative therapeutic practice and the cultural imperative of personal expansion in the socio-cultural context of late modernity.
This research addresses the experiences of complementarity and therapeutic integration carried out by psychologists whose careers have departed from the dominant social representation of their discipline by having integrated various alternative therapies into their practice. The research questions in this thesis are: How are the current processes of personal expansion, emergence of new forms of psychic suffering and diversification of the therapeutic offer linked with the experiences of psychologists who develop complementary and therapeutic integration practices? What characteristics do these psychologists acquire in their therapeutic practices and how do these psychologists construct their careers and professional identities? And, how do these psychologists characterize the forms of contemporary psychic suffering and their current therapeutic approaches?
In this thesis, an interpretive paradigm and a qualitative methodological strategy, specifically a biographical method, is used. Life stories technique is specifically used to construct data that will allow to rebuild the experiences and meanings given by psychologists to their therapeutic practices. There were conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 psychologists to set up descriptive data. To reconstruct the career paths of the psychologists, a thematic analysis was developed that focuses on those biographical events that encouraged their approach to various alternative therapies, the development of an integrative psychotherapeutic work and the conformation of their professional identity from their therapeutic experiences and professional practices.
The analysis of this thesis is part of the socio-cultural studies of professional life, from a constructivist and culturalist theoretical approach. This brings contributions arising from the sociology of professions into dialogue with the sociology of individuation. This conceptual integration is framed in more general debates about the identity construction and the reflexive processes of the self in late modernity. From the analysis of the data, the following emerged as significant:
a) the transformations and (re)meanings of the construction of the professional identities of the interviewee in relation to their experiences of complementarity and therapeutic integration,
b) the main characteristics of contemporary psycho-emotional suffering, identifying in the reports of the interviewees the transformations and changes in the reasons for consulting their patients throughout their professional career. Starting from the category of current reasons for consultation, I develop the native concepts of "existential crisis" and "crisis of senses" in conjunction with the idea of new diseases of the soul and the concept of self-discovery,
c) the characteristics and potentialities that the interviewees attribute their therapeutic practice starting from the native concept of well-being and the categories holistic framing, breadth, integration and therapeutic complementarity in terms of referential frameworks.
Starting from an analysis of the perspective relative to professional development and the conformation of lifestyles, the descriptions inherent to the normative ideal of self-realization as a horizon of desirable well-being, which this research addresses, account for the characteristic features of the intersection between the emergence of an integrative therapeutic practice and the cultural imperative of personal expansion in the socio-cultural context of late modernity.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales