O psiquiatra contemporâneo: transitando per via di porre e per via di levare

Abstract

* Editors of Rev Psiquiatr RS.Affirming that the current world has grown in complexity is more than a common place.Personal relationships in such a multifaceted society are often difficult not only of being understood, but also of being experienced. Human beings become, at the same time, actors in a script of this globalized society and mere audience members of a play they only watch. The result is that 21 st century people feel fragmented by the multiple approaches and possible experiences of the same phenomenon. What about the role of psychiatrists in this context? Freud, based on what Leonardo da Vinci had affirmed about arts, made some remarks about which would be the proposal of psychoanalysis, contrasting it with suggestive therapies. The latter corresponds to per via di porre, which is the form of painting, adding colored particles on a white canvas where there was previously nothing. In sculpture, on the other hand, the process is per via di levare, since what was hidden is removed from the block of stone, and then the work that was inside appears, a method that, according to Freud, corresponds to psychoanalysis. 1 Using Freud's words and bringing them to another situation, it seems that contemporary psychiatry -inserted in a multifaceted social context -needs to perform those two processes. At the same time in which, by treating a patient, we add colors to a "white canvas," based on increasingly more systematic and reliable diagnoses, we also need, for the diagnostic and therapeutic task, to remove from the "block of stone" what lies underneath -the unsaid. By doing so, we can in fact