Toward a Transformative Alchemy: The Phenomenology of the Event of Psychotherapy

• Main Authors: Matthew Draper, David Polizzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2015-09-01
• Series: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Subjects: Psychotherapy; Prisons; Alchemy; Phenomenology; Event; Apparatus; Psicoterapia; prisiones; alquimia; fenomenología; eventos; sistema
• Online Access: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2624907

<p>This paper takes up Jung&rsquo;s concept of Alchemy and applies the theory of this transformational process to prison psychotherapy. In particular, it discusses the manifest meanings in the prison system, how those can be made present and manifest, and how psychotherapy can prove an event, a moment when transformation can take place. It then discusses the openness and closedness of the client and the therapist to the transformational possibilities of the event, and the consequences of those fluid positions. Contextualizing the degree of openness is the adjacent possible in this potentially very human form of relating, and how the apparatus of prisons situated within a broader culture informs the transformational alchemy of forensic psychotherapy.</p> <hr /><p>Este art&iacute;culo recoge el concepto de alquimia de Jung, y aplica la teor&iacute;a de este proceso transformativo a la psicoterapia de prisiones. En particular, se tratan los significados evidentes del sistema de prisiones, c&oacute;mo &eacute;stos se pueden hacer presentes y evidentes, y c&oacute;mo la psicoterapia puede probar un evento, un momento en el que la transformaci&oacute;n puede tener lugar. Seguidamente analiza la apertura y cerraz&oacute;n del cliente y el terapeuta a las posibilidades transformadoras del evento, y las consecuencias de esas posiciones flexibles. Contextualizar el grado de apertura es el adyacente posible en esta forma potencialmente muy humana de relacionarse, y c&oacute;mo el sistema de prisiones situado en una cultura m&aacute;s amplia, informa de la alquimia transformacional de la psicoterapia forense.</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2624907" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2624907</a></p>