ANÁLISE DE UM ATENDIMENTO CLÍNICO DE CARL ROGERS A UMA PESSOA PRETA: DISCUSSÕES RACIAIS

Abstract

This clinical case study aims to analyze a videotaped session conducted by Carl Rogers with a Black client (Dione). Initially, argued that the subject vision presented by Rogers disregards several social markers. Then, the intervention procedures adopted by the therapist and the complaints and demands brought by Dione are described. Three representative excerpts are highlighted, emphasizing the racial contents that emerge in the therapeutic relationship and the way Rogers (does not) address them. The discussion, in the light of decolonial thought, demonstrates that although Rogers upholds his therapeutic proposal, he does not reach the meanings, significations and racial contents that permeate the client’s suffering. It is concluded that the Rogerian listening lacks an awareness of racial factors and that there is a risk of reducing structurally racialized experiences to individual conflicts, thereby reproducing, even if unintentionally, invisible mechanisms that sustain white privilege.