Possibility and upbuilding in the constitution of a clinical thinking in psychology

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to reflect on what is being called clinical thinking, which supports the very availability and atmosphere of the psychological clinic from a Kierkegaardian inspiration. We will begin by elucidating what is being understood clinical thinking. It will be necessary, then, to clarify the meaning of two other elements that we are highlighting, possibility and upbuilding, that will be taken in relation to existence in its daily concreteness as a space that always supports the possibility of transformation and a continuous strengthening (upbuilding) in this move. To conclude, we must return to the path we have taken to conjugate the disjunction, which constitutes existence, with our central theme, that is, the thought that sustains the psychological clinic as a possibility of upbuilding. For Kierkegaard, there is no separation between thinking and being, which means that clinical thinking relies on the way the clinical relationship is established.