Possibility and Upbuilding in the Constitution of Clinical Thinking in Psychology

The purpose of this text is to reflect on a way of thinking which supports availability and the very atmosphere of the psychological clinic of Kierkegaardian inspiration. We will begin by elucidating what is meant by clinical thinking. It will then be necessary to clarify the meaning of two other elements that we are highlighting, possibility and upbuilding. These elements will be taken in relation to existence in its everyday concreteness, a space that always holds the possibility of transformation and of a continuous strengthening (upbuilding) in this movement. To conclude, we must return to the path we have taken in order to conjugate the disjunction that constitutes existence with our central theme, that is, the thinking that sustains the psychological clinic as a possibility of upbuilding. For Kierkegaard, there is no separation between thinking and being, which means that clinical thinking is founded on the very way the clinical relationship is established.