Dialogical reconstruction in a case of grief: pragmatic-rhetorical mechanisms in psychotherapy
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v13i49.558Keywords:
relational constructivism, narrative, identity, grief, psychotherapy and pragmatic and rhetorical mechanismsAbstract
This paper presents the case of Sandra, who requested psychotherapy twenty-six years after her mother’s suicide. A pragmatic-rhetorical analysis of Sandra’s psychotherapy sessions was conducted so as to approach her grieving process. From a relational constructivist approach therapy helps clients to change their position relative to their own problems and the discourses that constrict them. In this case, the client shifts from suffering the effects of her mother’s suicide as something beyond her control to position herself as someone who controls, understands and elaborates them, closing a chapter in her life and initiating a new one.
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