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This paper discusses psychotherapy from the perspective of the Theory of Subjectivity and its consequences as a professional practice and its implication to produce knowledge in psychology. The Theory of Subjectivity is centered on understanding the procedural configuration of human phenomena and not on their pathologizing as an entity in the abstract or by criteria external to people. The practice from the perspective defended here is a permanent space of reflection that enables the constructive-interpretative analysis of different phenomena. Construction and interpretation enable the production of knowledge and guide the actions of professional practice in a process in which research and practice mutually constitute each other. In this work, social subjectivity will be discussed as an important process for psychotherapy, as changes in individual subjectivity can constitute changes in social subjectivity. The social subjectivity category is essential in this perspective for understanding the organization of the different configurations that take shape in institutions and groups from the dialogical processes that are organized. The change in psychotherapy cannot be centered only on changing people individually, but also on changing the social subjectivity of the spaces in which people belong to.
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“The configurational logic… is the organization of a constructive-interpretative process that takes place in the course of the research itself and through countless channels that the researcher does not define a priori, but that are articulated with the in situ model that accompanies and characterizes the development of research” (González Rey, 2005, p. 123).
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“The agent and subject proposed by us are not a-historical, they are not static, they are not substantiated in an original subjective condition. It is an individual or group with the capacity to position itself, to generate, with its positionings, processes that are beyond its control and conscience. It is a subjectively configured individual who generates subjective meanings beyond their representations, but who, at the same time, makes decisions, takes positions, has intellectual productions and commitments, which are the source of subjective meanings and open new subjectivation processes” (González Rey & Mitjáns Martínez, 2017, p. 72).
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Mori, V.D. (2021). Reflections on the Challenges of Psychotherapy and the Processes of Social Subjectivity. In: Goulart, D.M., Martínez, A.M., Adams, M. (eds) Theory of Subjectivity from a Cultural-Historical Standpoint. Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1417-0_16
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