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Different studies suggest that the strategies and narrative styles that people use to construct their autobiographical accounts have repercussions on their self-organization, as well as on their identity experience and their conception of the world. Empirical evidence supports changes in different aspects related to process, structure, and content in the narrative of clients during the course of the therapeutic process; these, in turn, seem to condition the course and the results of the process. In this paper we will seek to show, based on a case study and through the application of a method of phenomenological-narrative analysis, what are the predominant narrative strategies that a client uses in order to shape her autobiographical narrative in the initial and final moments of her psychotherapeutic process. Our data suggest that the narrative strategies at the beginning and end of the therapy are qualitatively differentiable. Changes are observed in the plot of the respective accounts, as well as a differentiated mode in the use of narrative functions. More specifically toward the end of psychotherapy, the client makes a deeper characterization of herself and others, based on predicates of a subjectivating, interpretive, and evaluative-reflective kind. She also predominantly uses proconcluding metacomments, which could facilitate the integration of problematic experiences. In summary, our data suggest that after a successful therapeutic process the client uses more complex and integrated narrative strategies for the construction of her autobiographical account.
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O artigo apresenta uma fonte histórica muito significativa no âmbito do gênero autobiográfico: as obras Liber de propria vita e Liber de libris propriis, do médico, matemático, astrólogo e pensador italiano Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576). O objetivo é analisar nelas o conhecimento de si mesmo elaborado pelo autor. A análise foi conduzida pelo método histórico conceitual, evidenciando-se os principais tópicos discutidos e suas significações à luz do universo sociocultural e histórico. Os resultados apontam para a complexidade do conhecimento construído pelo autor, que compreende a descrição de suas características físicas e psicológicas (incluindo os sonhos), o encadeamento dos fatos principais de sua história biográfica, a descrição de sua complexa personalidade construída com base em uma interpretação de si mesmo, à luz da identificação de suas motivações fundamentais.(AU)
The article discusses a very significant historical source in the autobiographical genre: the works of Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), mathematician, astrologer and Italian thinker: Liber de propria vita and Liber de libris propriis physician. The aim is to analyze them through selfknowledge drawn on by the author. The analysis was conducted via the historical conceptual method: showing the main topics discussed and their meanings in the light of its historical and socio-cultural universe. The results point to the complexity of knowledge built on by the author and discussion of relevant aspects: the description of his physical and psychological characteristics (including dreams); the chain of events leading to his biographical history; the description of his complex personality constructed from an interpretation of himself in the light of identifying their fundamental motivations.(AU)
El artículo presenta una fuente histórica muy significativa del género autobiográfico: Liber de propria vita y Liber de libris propriis, del médico, matemático, astrólogo y pensador italiano Girolamo Cardano (1501- 1576. El objetivo es analizar en ellas el conocimiento de sí mismo elaborado por el autor. El análisis se realizó por el método histórico conceptual, destacando los principales temas tratados y su significado a la luz del universo sociocultural e histórico. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto la complejidad del conocimiento construido por el autor, que comprende la descripción de sus características físicas y psicológicas (incluyendo los sueños), el encadenamiento de los principales acontecimientos de su historia biográfica, la descripción de su compleja personalidad, construida desde una interpretación de sí mismo a la luz de la identificación de sus motivaciones fundamentales.(AU)