De la patología a la normalidad: Deco-construcción y empoderamiento

Abstract

We report the case of a woman who goes to therapy seeking for security, confidence, independence, and overcome his phobia towards enclosed spaces. She wants to stop with the medication prescribed by her psychiatrist and says she has a depression history and multiple therapies. She was diagnosed with bipolar personality disorder syndrome, and was interned in a psychiatric institution. Using a therapeutic mechanism that we identify as deco-construction, the meanings associated with the pathologizing of her experience were altered, opening the patient to new forms of interpretation. The questioning of dominant discourses, the use of analogies, the outsourcing, the seek for exceptions and the potentiation of its resources, favored the empowerment and the construction of a decent and satisfactory long term living project. At the end, she reported feeling safe, confident and independent, capable of visiting enclosed places, and her psychiatrist has significantly reduced her medication.