<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this paper is to reflect the contribution of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Psychotherapy. We first start by clarifying the meaning of Philosophical Hermeneutics and by analyzing its object. Second, finding a support in the two most important names of contemporary Hermeneutics, both H.G. Gadamer and Paul Ricœur, we reject the naturalism to which Psychotherapy reduces itself insofar as it does not take into account the close connection between man ‘s world-of-life and its temporal, linguistic and narrative dimension. Indeed, the very center of the contribution of Hermeneutics lies in the constitution of identity through ethical, linguistic and institutional mediation.</p></abstract>

The aim of this paper is to reflect the contribution of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Psychotherapy. We first start by clarifying the meaning of Philosophical Hermeneutics and by analyzing its object. Second, finding a support in the two most important names of contemporary Hermeneutics, both H.G. Gadamer and Paul Ricœur, we reject the naturalism to which Psychotherapy reduces itself insofar as it does not take into account the close connection between man ‘s world-of-life and its temporal, linguistic and narrative dimension. Indeed, the very center of the contribution of Hermeneutics lies in the constitution of identity through ethical, linguistic and institutional mediation.

Hermenêutica e Psicoterapia

Phainomenon

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The aim of this paper is to reflect the contribution of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Psychotherapy. We first start by clarifying the meaning of Philosophical...

Hermenêutica e Psicoterapia

Published Online: Oct 19, 2021

Page range: 247 - 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2008-0026

© 2008 Maria Luísa Portocarrero, published by Sciendo

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