Mudança psicológica no processo psicoterapêutico do método ADI/TIP: uma investigação empírico fenomenológica

Abstract

The present research, of a qualitative nature, utilized the phenomenological-empirical method of investigation in psychology with the aim of studying psychological change in the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method. Considering the data from a previous research conducted on the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method titled: "Clinical Intervention in Depressive Suffering: ADI/TIP Method, Psychology, and the Phenomenology of Affects" (Jost & Goto, 2022) – which relates depressive suffering, the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method, and the psychological change that occurs within this psychotherapeutic process, we set as the objective of this work the conducting of a psychological analysis in order to identify possible changes occurring as a consequence of the intervention of the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method. The work will be presented in three studies exposed in three chapters, including a preliminary introduction to the chapters. In the introduction, we present a brief history of Clinical Psychology in order to contextualize Psychotherapy, as practice and research in Psychology. The study of the first chapter presented an integrative review of the Brazilian literature with the aim of reviewing national scientific production of works that researched the relationship between processes of psychological change and Psychotherapy. The delimited question in this review was as follows: what are the current researches in Brazil that address the theme of psychological change in the psychotherapy process and their results. The purpose of the second chapter was to present the ADI/TIP Method which, starting from its foundations and initial research, went through a path of development that led to the structuring of the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method. We sought to present this method, in its historical base, its development path, and its theoretical foundations that are based on philosophical anthropology. The objective of the third chapter was to conduct a psychological analysis of a clinical case attended in the psychotherapeutic process of the ADI/TIP Method. The purpose of this analysis was to identify psychological changes occurring as a consequence of therapeutic intervention, the study was conducted from the perspective of the phenomenological-empirical method of investigation in Psychology.