This article is the result of a psychology course paper that proposed to reveal the possibility of applying the socio-historical approach to psychotherapy, since we observed the lack of publications in sociohistorical psychotherapy, for most publications refer only to the educational applications of this theory. The socio-historical psychology understands man from the marxist dialectic, that assumes that man is constructed and constituted in social relations. Written as a theoretical essay, we used the method of bibliographical survey of books and journals produced in Brazil and the analysis of scholar publications on the subject. The chosen method of analysis was the phenomenological, allowed by the categories: immersion (for the time of reading), discrimination and assignment senses (regarding the subjective organization of the material) and synthesis (that seeks general understanding), internalizing the concepts read. This way, the possibility of a socio-historical approach in psychotherapy was identified and analyzed in the literature.
Psychology; Psychotherapy; Phenomelogy; Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich, 1896-1934
