Reflection on the value of the theory of subjectivity to signify the practice of psychotherapy (Reflexión sobre el valor de la teoría de la subjetividad para significar la práctica de la psicoterapia)

Abstract

In this article, I discuss psychotherapy from the perspective of the theory of subjectivity proposed by González Rey. This practice focuses on the understanding and possibilities of changing processes of both individual subjectivity and social subjectivity. Dialogue is a central process for configuring psychotherapy as a mobilizing space for different subjective productions. Psychotherapy is not defined by the place in which it occurs, but by the different subjective processes that emerge in living this experience. Construction and interpretation are processes that accompany psychotherapists in their professional action and theoretical production. From the perspective of subjectivity, the process of psychotherapy is oriented to the way in which different subjective configurations are organized in the person’s experience and in the different developments in areas of his life. The idea of subjective configuration is not based on a universal model of human standardization, nor on categories that define a priori what is normal or pathological in relation to human development and health processes. It is a category that allows one to follow the procedural nature of the constitution of what is lived.