December 28, 2018 When we walk through the concepts, we find complex relationships and connections; even better if they come from literature, philosophy, and psychotherapy. To think and reflect differently is to invite each time to dialogue as if it were the first time; to ask and critically question established truths, conventional meanings, stereotypes, platitudes, and prejudices. It is approaching aesthetics, art, a theme of creativity, imagination. For example: to understand intellectual integrity, it seems relevant to mention the Ecuadorian writer Leonardo Valencia, who quotes Giorgio Manganelli (1976): “The didactic language, aimed at people who want to learn notions that they ignore, tends to limit the range of meanings and…

Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. y Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M. A. October 5, 2018 (NOTE: For the complete table check: https://iryse.org/procesos-relacionales-con-preguntas-generadoras-distintos-para-terapeutas-que-buscan-salir-de-sus-certezas-rutinarias-parte-i /) The training or training meetings with psychotherapy professionals in certain contexts of Ecuadorian society show complex, contradictory and paradoxical situations, which we propose to discuss (in this first part) to find alternatives that favor the people with whom they work.  For example: a) They are professionals, who, although they tend to consider that other people “should” go to therapy, they do not do it; they do not show interest in doing constant therapeutic processes, as a necessary form of self-care and professional ethics. b) They do not seek spaces…

Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. and Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M. September 21, 2018 Dialogue means that two people are interconnected. It is looking at the relational field that is organized when one is linked to the other -because as we connect- new aspects for comprehension are generated, links are produced to develop new forms of collaboration. It is in this space and relational context -with a reflective level- where the words of one of the interlocutors make sense due to the relationship connection that they establish with the words of the other interlocutor. Language is what allows us to be and builds us; it is in living dialogue that life speaks.…

Diego Tapia Figueroa, Ph.D. and Maritza Crespo Balderrama, M. May 4, 2018 Many professionals from different fields: psychotherapy, education, organizations., tend to assume their roles as something that “should” be -if not perfect- at least the best without failing or making mistakes. They are often tyrannized by this social and personal duty; they tend to take competitive positions (be experts, accumulate prestige, money, power, and privilege) and engage in power struggles, fatuousness, and social careerism to demonstrate that they are essential. Between their own, exaggerated, expectations of perfection and the complex demands of those who seek their work or depend in some way on what they do, professionals in these…