Eles não sabem o que é um homem ou a desdita do psicoterapeuta

Abstract

The author starts pointing out the irony of the fact that, if taken to the limit the conceptual differences about what is Psychology and Psychology’s field of study, it is not even possible to demonstrate that he himself is a clinical psychologist. He then presents, in a somewhat methaforical manner, a three phase model of a could-be development scheme for an ecletic psychologist. The last phase – which corresponds to a valid eclecticism both in theory and in practice – is presented as a desirable «psychological fiction». A discussion follows about thr epistemologic motifs for this state of things and reasons are given for the author’s adherence to a perspective that relates to the Transpersonal Psychology as well as to the transcendental realism as an epistemologic position. As a consequence of the nowadays difficulty in conducting an ecletic psychotherapeutic practice, the author suggest its basing on the abstraction level of the problems presented by the pacient and puts forward some arguments supporting this idea. He then ends considering that the major theoretical and practical approaches in Psychology surely include fragments of the truth that should be integrated urgently – something only feasible when some model allows situating and understanding the very epistemological battles instead of trying to win them over.