La poesía como dispositivo narrativo en psicoterapia para abordar la "depresión"

Abstract

The following research-intervention was constructed from the macro-project “Family Stories and Narratives within a Diversity of Contexts”, which was developed in the Master of Clinical and Family Psychology from Santo Tomás University and is part of the investigation group: Psychology, Family, Networks as well as of the line of investigation in “Psychology, Human Systems and Mental Health” Its general objective was to comprehend the experience of what was defined as depression via the poetic devices which led to new constructions of identity within the therapeutic system. A qualitative design of second order was proposed, with an analysis of narrative in the study of a unique case, counting on the participation of a woman with the diagnose of depression and her family. The context in which the study is developed is The Service of Psychologic Attention of Santo Tomás University in the city of Bogotá. The therapeutic strategy promoted narrative-creative acts through the construction of poems developed by the therapeutic system. The general results show that the incorporation of poems to the therapeutic processes promote the resignification of the experience of what was defined as depression in a therapeutic system. Therefore, breaking the silence and accomplishing the communication of the unsaid activating the creative potential and facilitating the mobilization of the interaction dynamics. Realizing the meaning of the sharing experiences by the consultant system before the studied phenomenon, generating new content for the identitarian construction in the redefinition and in the approach of the depressive pattern.

Key words: depression, poems, systematic therapy, narrative, creativity.