O diálogo como ocasião para reposicionar a evidência de quem se é: do resgate da fala autêntica à psicoterapia ontopsicológica de autenticação

Abstract

The advances of the contemporary technological era have placed us before complex challenges regarding the efficiency, quality, and responsibility of professional performance across diverse psychotherapeutic approaches. It is within this context that individuals’ existential concerns emerge: from psychological crises to personal growth, from escapism to self-discovery—directly impacting physical and mental well-being, as well as social development. This scenario has posed obstacles to the capacity to think, write, and speak autonomously, gradually silencing the human being's natural, spontaneous, and genuine ability to relate and communicate. As a result, it affects the quality of dialogue that builds human values in society. This leads people, often unconsciously, into a realm of discourse for discourse’s sake, distancing them from themselves and from the ability to express themselves creatively, truthfully, and authentically. Therefore, this research, through a theoretical-bibliographic review with a qualitative approach, revisits the concept of authentic speech by Mauro Martins Amatuzzi—intersecting the thoughts of Merleau-Ponty, Martin Buber, and Carl Rogers—and later correlates it with the contributions of Antonio Meneghetti. The aim is to analyze the possibility of the phenomenon of authentic speech through the dialogue within the most recent psychotherapeutic approach: Ontopsychology. The relevance of this study invites us to reflect on the training of psychotherapists, approaching the theme which, while presented as the recovery of the phenomenon of authentic speech, ultimately reveals the emergence of the individual’s new life experience. In the context of psychotherapy, when the client chooses to let themselves be expressed, it becomes a deliberate exercise to expand self-awareness and personality: speech as a fundamental resource to know and claim oneself.