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INTRODUCTION: Currently, there is no scientific consensus on the concept of alcohol addiction recovery beyond substance use control. This conceptual issue challenges the implementation of therapeutic strategies and mental health policies that are unrestricted to symptomatic remission. Aiming to contribute to its definition, this study aimed to examine the recovery experience of individuals with alcohol addiction using dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) as a theoretical and methodological framework. METHODS: A dialectical phenomenological analysis was conducted through an examination of online interviews with eight Brazilian, São Paulo state citizens who were self-declared to be undergoing alcohol addiction recovery (or who declared that they had completely recovered). RESULTS: Participants' reports generated eight categories that were subdivided into two groups. The first group indicated experiential elements of recovery, such as changes in self-relation, changes in interpersonal relations, and changes in time relations, giving new meanings to suffering and alcohol use, and recovery as a continuous process. The second group referred to how the participants interpreted recovery according to their worldviews: as a spiritual experience, moral reformation, and mentality change. CONCLUSION: These categories can be understood through the lens of DPP as a process of change in the subjects' being in the world, characterized by the continued management of their existential imbalances in the dimensions of spatiality, temporality, selfhood, and intersubjectivity. The results are preliminary when it comes to conceptualizing recovery but may help future studies to develop recovery-oriented therapeutic strategies.
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Resumo A noção de crise do senso comum na esquizofrenia é introduza por Wolfgang Blankenburg através do conceito de perda da evidência natural. Na contemporaneidade, Giovanni Stanghellini revista e amplia essa noção, propondo uma perspectiva panorâmica dessa crise. Este artigo apresenta as contribuições trazidas pela perspectiva de Stanghellini, introduzindo seu entendimento sobre o conceito de senso comum e a relevância deste para a compreensão da esquizofrenia. Para o autor, o senso comum é compreendido de três modos: como saber socialmente compartilhado, sintonização intuitiva e cenestesia. Através das noções de intercorporeidade e koinè aisthesis, Stanghellini entende a esquizofrenia como experiência de rompimento da relação habitual com o mundo. Sua proposta contribui para a prática clínica ao sugerir direções à psicoterapia com esquizofrênicos.
Abstract The notion of crisis of common sense on schizophrenia is introduced by Wolfgang Blankenburg through his concept of loss of natural evidence. In contemporaneity, Giovanni Stanghellini revisits and amplifies this notion by proposing a panoramic perspective on this crisis. This paper presents the contributions brought by Stanghellini's perspective, introducing his understanding of common sense and its relevance for the comprehension of schizophrenia. For the author, common sense is understood in three ways: as a knowledge socially shared, intuitive attunement, and cenesthesia. Through the notions of intercorporeality and koinè aisthesis, Stanghellini conceives schizophrenia as an experience of disruption of the habitual relation with the world. His proposal contributes to clinical practice by suggesting directions for the psychotherapy with schizophrenics.