The encounter is the setting

An experience report of a service in Psychological Duty

Abstract

Psychological Duty is a kind of psychological care defined by the immediate response when one demands it. In the therapist-client encounter, the objective is to unveil this one´s existential situation, providing integration of fragments of history and the elaboration of the current experience, promoting new positions and the rescue of autonomy. Its structure is flexible, molding itself according to the demand and need of the one who demands it and the institution which offers the service. This article aims to illustrate the inventiveness and flexibility required of an on-duty psychologist. The service required to let go of the traditional setting (office) to meet the client where and when possible for her at that moment. Thus, it contributed to the rescue of familiarity with the world around her, which was afflicting her. After a theoretical introduction, the article presents the psychology student´s experience report about this encounter.