Número especial de HCS-Manguinhos: Histórias transculturais de psicoterapias: novas narrativas
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In this special issue, we investigate histories of psychotherapies. The term “psychotherapy” has been used since the mid-nineteenth century. Medical doctors from several schools, like Tuke, Bernheim and Van Eeden, started to use it to define therapies that sought moral treatment, cure of automatism, persuading or producing catharsis, affecting body, mind and unconscious. In the early twentieth century, the word reached broader circulation and was adopted by authors as Dubois, Janet, Forel, Jaspers and Jung, who sought to affect behaviors and the unconscious. The term gained wider prominence and diversity in the post-Second World War, being adopted by authors of psychoanalytic reference, Gestalt therapy, existential school and even authors from cognitive-behavioral referential. In the contemporary world, despite the lack of consensus about its meaning, psychotherapies gained an even more central role for the definition of subjects, having an impact on the concept of psychological suffering and wellbeing and the idea of identity; it is possible to state that today we are psychotherapeutic cultures and societies.