Gilberto Safra

Some notions of embodiment and theorising modes

In this article, we shall present some modes of theoretical production in psychotherapys history and relate them to contemporary clinical problems. We shall affirm that Freud and his followers, as well as Reich and Lowen, consider that the pathology and the constitution of the self derive from the destinations given to the drive forces. We shall present our thesis that this theoretical mode does not provide a satisfactory answer to the contemporary clinical problems, especially in the cases labelled as borderline. We shall enounce some aspects of embodiment in Winnicott, whose theory brings the body to the centre of the scene for health improvement or, when it is absent, the emergence of illness, demonstrating that the constitution of the self depends upon anothers body.

Ramakrishna and the Clinic of Paradox

This study presents a clinical conception of the human being as the paradox between immanence and transcendence. Through an exposition of the clinical conceptions of Brazilian author Gilberto Safra, we search for an integral manner in which to understand mystical experience as a way to rethink the ontological conceptions inherent to clinical practice. In such perspective, we elaborate a critique of both the psychological-only approach to mystical experience as well as the spiritual-only approach. We present it through the life of Indian mystic Ramakrishna, by comparing the interpretation different authors make of his experiences and placing our own perspective.

A contribuição de Michel Henry para a prática clínica na atualidade

This study discusses the contemporary psychopathological pictures derived from a sociocultural context in which human life is organized according to the fundamental principles that characterize modernity and postmodernity. Today, distress is a result of a world characterized by hyper-realities, in which the human originary conditions are forgotten. In this context, it is observed that the human body is the focus of the most fundamental changes that deserve our reflection. The clinical situation needs to be reinvented in order to manage the new forms of subjectivity. To that end, the contributions of Michel Henry are highly relevant. The present study discusses some of the most fundamental concepts developed by this author in dialogue with the clinical situation.En este trabajo se analiza la psicopatologia contemporanea derivada de un contexto socio-cultural en el que nos encontramos con la vida humana organizada de acuerdo a los principios fundamentales que caracterizan la modernidad y la posmodernidad. El malestar actual ocurre como resultado de un mundo fundamentado en la hiper-realidad, en el cual se olvidan las afecciones originadas en el ser humano. En este contexto, se observa que el cuerpo humano es el centro de los cambios mas fundamentales, que merecen nuestra reflexion. La situacion clinica debe ser reinventada para tener en cuenta las nuevas formas de subjetividad y para eso las contribuciones de Michel Henry son profundamente relevantes. Presentase algunos de los conceptos mas fundamentales de este autor en dialogo con la situacion clinica.

La contribución de Michel Henry para la práctica clínica actual

This study discusses the contemporary psychopathological pictures derived from a sociocultural context in which human life is organized according to the fundamental principles that characterize modernity and postmodernity. Today, distress is a result of a world characterized by hyper-realities, in which the human originary conditions are forgotten. In this context, it is observed that the human body is the focus of the most fundamental changes that deserve our reflection. The clinical situation needs to be reinvented in order to manage the new forms of subjectivity. To that end, the contributions of Michel Henry are highly relevant. The present study discusses some of the most fundamental concepts developed by this author in dialogue with the clinical situation.En este trabajo se analiza la psicopatologia contemporanea derivada de un contexto socio-cultural en el que nos encontramos con la vida humana organizada de acuerdo a los principios fundamentales que caracterizan la modernidad y la posmodernidad. El malestar actual ocurre como resultado de un mundo fundamentado en la hiper-realidad, en el cual se olvidan las afecciones originadas en el ser humano. En este contexto, se observa que el cuerpo humano es el centro de los cambios mas fundamentales, que merecen nuestra reflexion. La situacion clinica debe ser reinventada para tener en cuenta las nuevas formas de subjetividad y para eso las contribuciones de Michel Henry son profundamente relevantes. Presentase algunos de los conceptos mas fundamentales de este autor en dialogo con la situacion clinica.

The contribution of Michel Henry to today's clinical practice

This study discusses the contemporary psychopathological pictures derived from a sociocultural context in which human life is organized according to the fundamental principles that characterize modernity and postmodernity. Today, distress is a result of a world characterized by hyper-realities, in which the human originary conditions are forgotten. In this context, it is observed that the human body is the focus of the most fundamental changes that deserve our reflection. The clinical situation needs to be reinvented in order to manage the new forms of subjectivity. To that end, the contributions of Michel Henry are highly relevant. The present study discusses some of the most fundamental concepts developed by this author in dialogue with the clinical situation.En este trabajo se analiza la psicopatologia contemporanea derivada de un contexto socio-cultural en el que nos encontramos con la vida humana organizada de acuerdo a los principios fundamentales que caracterizan la modernidad y la posmodernidad. El malestar actual ocurre como resultado de un mundo fundamentado en la hiper-realidad, en el cual se olvidan las afecciones originadas en el ser humano. En este contexto, se observa que el cuerpo humano es el centro de los cambios mas fundamentales, que merecen nuestra reflexion. La situacion clinica debe ser reinventada para tener en cuenta las nuevas formas de subjetividad y para eso las contribuciones de Michel Henry son profundamente relevantes. Presentase algunos de los conceptos mas fundamentales de este autor en dialogo con la situacion clinica.