Body, Space, and Encounter: Phenomenological Contributions to Therapeutic Accompaniment of People with Schizophrenia

This paper explores Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA) as a clinical device guided by Phenomenological Psychopathology, particularly as a therapeutic tool in the care of individuals with schizophrenia. Through a clinical case report written in both first- and third-person perspectives, the paper describes the clinical practice of TA in its clinical-relational dimension and analyzes its contributions to the reconstruction of the experience of being-in-the-world based on intercorporeality and spatiality. Within this framework, the paper proposes a discussion on the expansion of forms of care that consider the centrality of the subject’s lived experience in relation to illness.