O sofrimento frente às práticas curativas contemporâneas

Abstract

The present work raises some questions concerning the ways of treatment that are present in the hodierna world, specially in what concerns the psychological practices. The human being developed knowledge and practices to explain and treat his sicknesses. These are discursive practices that impose various knowledge in confrontation with the traditional ways of explaining wellness and sickness such as the religious ways. These practices bring the subject to a doubt in the momento of choosing his treatment: before him there are different possibilities: the modem medicinal practices, the psychologies, the psychoanalysis, etc. Each of these develops a proper rationality, while they attribute different meanings for sickness.