Abstract
ObjectiveThis article reviews part of the history of integration in psychotherapy. This is a theme that emerged in the United States in the 1930s, and has been an important research topic since the 1980s. However, it has not been an important concern in France. This field of research and thought, arising in the United States, advocates a common or integrative view of care that is not found in France. MethodWe set out to consider the French inability to reflect, in depth and over the long term, on our practices from the perspective of integrative psychotherapy, which is still not a field of study or research in our universities. This involves crossing historical and philosophical elements from United States and France concerning the development of psychoanalysis and psychotherapies, and their transformations or integration. ResultsPhilosophical and cultural differences could explain this lack of research in the field; alongside, the place of behaviorism in the United States has provided a means of involving analytic and humanistic concepts. DiscussionIn our country, our university courses, the fear of the influence of therapists and their view of psychotherapy (the place of the subject, and the function and meaning of the symptom) in terms of psychoanalysis and clinical phenomenology are aspects that provide part of the answer to our question. ConclusionWe believe that reflection on the integration of psychotherapies would place clinical practice and theory in a different relationship. It would also provide an overview of all psychotherapies, instead of questioning each school of thought individually, thus enabling a critical and epistemological approach.
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