Clínica psicológica, Terapia Social e suas relações com a psicologia histórico-cultural.

Abstract

The clinic is a space that has been constituted since ancient times and, like history, is in constant reformulation. Clinical psychology is a relatively new specificity within this context and its formulation is influenced, both, by the dominant scientific paradigm and by other points of views that seek to explore the possibilities of that space. Lev Vigotski, one of the founders of cultural-historical psychology, has his works most popularized in the areas of educational and social psychology, but there are those who make use of his thoughts for clinical practice, such as Fred Newman and Lois Holzman, founders of the Social Therapy (ST). Despite not being totally aligned with the cultural-historical psycology, as their theory is better seen as a synthesis of Marx, Vigotski and Wittgesntein thoughts, the ST focuses on group practices that are based on important notions of Vigotski's thoughts, allowing a glimpse of his ideas in a clinical context. In this view, using a bibliographic method of research, this work proposes to introduce the so-called Social Therapy, in addition to discussing its approximations and distances with the cultural-historical psychology from the point of view of clinical psychology.