Connections between art and clinical practice
Abstract
The capitalist social and economic organization produces subjective effects that are widely present and analyzed in psychological clinical practice. The present qualitative research sought to investigate how clinical practices take place in contemporary times, through an analysis of documents prepared by professional councils that have a more prescriptive and established feature. However, considering the dimensions of chance and unpredictability that traverse the existence, this established model demands an analysis that takes into account current issues surrounding the clinical practice. Therefore, practices that go beyond prescriptions and purely curative aims were taken into account, and interventions related to processes of creating ways of life were of special interest. In that sense, connexions between clinical practice and art were drawn, aiming to highlight practices that accompanies life in its movements of transformation and creation.
