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Towards a clinical-institutional psychology through the denaturalization of the self

The field of knowledge/power in clinical psychology, as it embraces Foucault's "principle of denaturalization", redefines not only its subject, but also redefines its ethical and methodological devices. 1) It becomes an institutional clinic which questions the interiority and the institutionalized subjectivity. 2) It is essentially analytical, once the clinic doesn't aim at a return to totality. The analysis intends to make visible the multiplicity of being. 3) It also envisages the constitution of multiple, nomadic territories, where thinking, knowing and acting are disjunctive and indissociable. Three ethical principles are the foundation of the becoming clinical: 1) To be auto-critical and critical of one's self; 2) To take into consideration one's own spatial-time condition; 3) To lay out one's objectives: fragmentation of institutionalized forms, singularizing/composing existential territories, actualizing the thought of the multiple.

Psychology; Clinical-institutional; Denaturalization; Michel foucault


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