Historias de sufrimiento en familias de psicólogos: el doble rol en la psicoterapia

Abstract

This current research-intervention is assigned to the institutional research line called: “Historias y Narrativas Familiares en Diversidad de Contextos”, as part of the Master’s degree program in “Psicología Clínica y de la Familia” of the Santo Tomás University. The main objective is to understand how to organise the suffering experience, sing the construction of narrated stories, in psychotherapeutic conversations with families in which there is a psychologist, in order to give priority to the emergency of ecology narratives for the familiar transformation associated with the deconstruction of the demand request. A second order social research was developed, with a contextual-reflective design, from a systemic-constructivist-constructionalist-complex view. Eight different conversational-reflexive scenarios were carried out at Santo Tomas University´s IPS with a psychology student (daughter) participation, her treating therapist, and two psychotherapists meta analysts, followed by a family with a psychologist as member of it (daughter), and one psychotherapist meta analyst. The remaining scenarios were developed within the framework of a psychotherapeutic process, with a family of a psychologists (mother and couple), her treating therapist, the research-intervention advisor teacher, and researcher-auditor that accompanied the different moments. A conversational narrative analysis was developed, that benefited the comprehension of the phenomenon set out by means of the methodological categories: Suffering experience, Familiar role, professional in psychology comprehensions, and narrative construction of the help demand. The results are proposing the double role of the psychologist in the familiar and therapeutic system, like a novel element, specifying that the psychology professional repositioning (psychologist consultant/psychotherapeutic), who pass from the expertise role, to the human-emerging one in the conversational process benefiting the reconfiguration of the experience of suffering in the consulting system. Self-reference allows the reconfiguration of the psychotherapist's identity narrative, allowing the reconfiguration of the structural role of the consulting psychologist in the family through the narrative reconstruction of the self, and mobilizing its members -from shared-responsibility to the demand for help. Subsequently, alternate stories are consolidated that promote the updating of the lived experience to the narrated experience, propitiating the change in the intervention context.