Cartas terapéuticas en terapia de pareja: Una apuesta narrativa desde el amor complejo

Abstract

This research and intervention work is part of the research group “Psychology, Family and Networks” to the line of research in “Psychology, Human Systems and Mental Health” and was from the macro institutional project of “History and Family Narratives in Diversity Contexts”, attached to the Master´s Degree in Clinical and Family Psychology at the Santo Tomás University. The general objective was oriented to mobilize the dominant narratives about couple problems through therapeutic letters from the cognitive, emotional and pragmatic components of complex love within the stages of heartbreak or litigation proposed by Linares, (2006), in a process psychotherapeutic in the Psychological Attention Service of the Santo Tomás University. Allowing relational nutrition and the emergence of more generative discourses in the couple. The method is contextual and reflective in nature; research, corresponding to second – order cybernetics. The type of research is qualitative with an emphasis on deepening and a novel proposal was a couple in a psychotherapeutic process with seven scenarios in which therapeutic letters were used as a narrative intervention strategy. The context in which it was developed was in the Psychological Attention Service (SAP) of the Santo Tomás University and it was carried out with a single case study with a married couple of legal age, using psychotherapy for the intervention.