Gestalt-Terapia: uma compreensão sobre o delírio

Abstract

This narrative review aims to understand delusion by Gestalt-Therapy, opposing the way the phenomenon is understood and treated by the hegemonic psychiatric perspective. Perceiving delusion under the bias of Gestalt-Therapy makes it possible to advance in the understanding of the delusional condition as a subjective manifestation that cannot be seen individually, since the experience is always concerning a relationship developed between self - world, self – other. More so, it provides the possibility that the person in a delusional condition is perceived beyond his/her symptom, as a coming-to-be being, who influences and is influenced by relationships, whether they are affective, social and cultural. In this sense, it becomes plausible to consider the creative dimension of delirium, which represents an attempt to adjust to the disagreements present in the organism/environment. Likewise, considering the different ways in which delusion can manifest itself and, in a way, speak of existential conditions that are consciously irreconcilable and difficult to be dealt with, through the contextual and integral look of Gestalt-Therapy.