Historical-relational therapeutic approach of a patient with hyperactivity disorder

Autor: Tâmara Rodrigues, Psicóloga Clínica

Instituto Liev Vegostsky de Formação, Coimbra, Portugal

Clínica de Psicoterapia Pós-Clássica, Coimbra, Portugal

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Historical-Relational Therapeutic Approach of a patient with Hyperactivity Disorder

Quoting Rita Mendes Leal (2006), “life is inter-woven, since its beginning to its end, in a pattern of presence and contact relationship with an “object” that responds and establishes an encounter with the world beyond it, transcending the relationship” (2006: 10). The objective of this work is to, starting from a case study of a child with Hyperactivity Disorder, to reflect on this pattern of relationship within which the mental apparel is structured.
Based on the Post-Classic psychology, finding its ground on the works of Vegostky, Luria, Leontiev, Leal and Aires, we intend to analyse and put into work the development of this child during a period of six months of historical-relational psychology.
The way this individual integrates and deals with the world is, so far, a biological pattern of relations. Although it has acquired some speech and behaviour patterns, those are not enough to cope with the lack of comfort felt in the presence of others (felt as strangers) and in face of new activities (social demands) that trigger uneasiness.
The child as been followed since Novembro 2011, and the psycho therapist has been working as a skilled care-giver bestowing herself to the relationship in order to repair the movement of development and of transformation of the triangle Self (I) – Other (Carer) - Object (historical-cultural instruments).
This path does not follow a route pre-determined by any conditions of biological hereditary, but is, opposed to that, structured by Acting motivated within the social relations with other human-beings, giving birth to new neuronal networks that cease to obey to the laws of biological functioning. The structuring