Uma leitura da dimensão ética da Gestalt-Terapia: um diálogo com Martin Buber e Emmanuel Lévinas

Abstract

We inquire to understand how the ethical dimension of gestalt therapy, in your theoretical and methodological referential, understanding that such referential attitude that guide the therapist in this approach has his/her work listening to each other. The research arises from the need to understand and systematize the ethical dimension of gestalt therapy, this ordinarily, subliminally in theoretical elaborations of the gestalt approach. It is proposed, originating in perspective philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, conduct a survey of theoretical. It is understood the Gestalt Therapy as a psychotherapeutic approach eminently comprehensive and experiential, starting from the prejudice that in gestalt therapy is an ethical placed upon understanding and acceptance of the Other, in it´s essential difference, which can be understood as the ethical encounter, dialogical, epistemologically rooted in dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber. Looking up, too, walk the paths trodden previously by Freire (2000), with reference to Levinasian ethics, in which ethical condition succeeds in opening the Other, originally given as a condition of possibility of all subjectivity, making it necessary to understand the centrality of the concept of the Other for the ethical discussion. It proposes a dialogue between gestalt therapy, dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas radical otherness. It is considered the end of the research that gestalt therapy, in the form as expressed in their theoretical and epistemological, not aware of the ethical requirements that bring the thought of Martin Buber, and especially that of Emmanuel Levinas. It is understood, however, that such requirements are not entirely foreign to the set of beliefs and values that make up the perspective of gestalt approach. It is noticed that gestalt therapy brings in their theoretical and epistemological elements that allow conjecture with these ethical approaches.