Peripatetism as a Complex Method in Clinical Psychology
Method; Peripateticism; Complex Thinking; Clinical Psychology; Metatheory
This is a metatheoretical work based on Complex Thinking that presents a new conception of
method for clinical psychology, as a self-generative process that occurs in the singularrelationship between
the subjects involved in the therapeutic process. In this perspective, the method is not just a set of
proceduralized or reified techniques that are applied on an industrial scale to individual subjects, but a set
of principles and processes that, articulated together, generate a new source of intelligibility about the
therapeutic process. I name this method peripateticism, expanding the notions historically linked to this term
by philosophy and psychology, presenting an overview of theterm and proposing a new conceptual
possibility for it. To do so, I employ a theoretical-conceptual research strategy, conducting a constructive-
interpretive analysis of these principles and processes involved in this method, following an unstructured
bibliographic research procedure that uses the research diary as an instrument for recording the journey,
which according to this theoretical perspective is singular and inseparable from the researcher's experiences.
As a result of this work, there is an important re-reading of theoretical categories and transversal processes
that are underexplored in clinical psychology, as well as the proposition that the method and techniques in
clinical psychology are emergent from the therapeutic relationship between subjects in this space, promoting
a possible interpretation of how such processes occur.