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

Authors

  • Matthew Draper Utah Valley University
  • David Polizzi Indiana State University

Keywords:

Psychotherapy, Prisons, Alchemy, Phenomenology, Event, Apparatus, Psicoterapia, prisiones, alquimia, fenomenología, eventos, sistema

Abstract

This paper takes up Jung’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.

Este artículo recoge el concepto de alquimia de Jung, y aplica la teoría de este proceso transformativo a la psicoterapia de prisiones. En particular, se tratan los significados evidentes del sistema de prisiones, cómo éstos se pueden hacer presentes y evidentes, y cómo la psicoterapia puede probar un evento, un momento en el que la transformación puede tener lugar. Seguidamente analiza la apertura y cerrazón 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 cómo el sistema de prisiones situado en una cultura más amplia, informa de la alquimia transformacional de la psicoterapia forense.

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Author Biographies

Matthew Draper, Utah Valley University

Associate Professor ‐ Behavioral Science. Utah Valley University

David Polizzi, Indiana State University

Associate Professor of Corrections. Criminology & Criminal Justice. Indiana State University

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Published

03-11-2014

How to Cite

Draper, M. and Polizzi, D. (2014) “Toward a Transformative Alchemy: The Phenomenology of the Event of Psychotherapy”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 5(3), pp. 982–1005. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/472 (Accessed: 28 March 2024).

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