Who we are?
We are young therapists, young researchers and undergraduate students, all deeply interested in psychohterapy, who want to share efforts to build up a field in which theory, research and practice could be as much articulated as possible. Although we have different roots, not only due to the places we come but also the formations we received, there is a common principle: how we conceive psychotherapy.
How we understand psychotherapy?
We indetify ourselve with a broad, open, questioning and reflexive way of developing the knowledge construction. Broad since we are of the opinion that narrow perspectives can never contribute to any scientific development. We do not look for a scholastic standpoint but to enrich ourselves with people who have different theoretical frameworks and perspectives. Open since we never think that knowledge can reach an arrival line, but always is in a continuing progress. Finally questioning and reflexive since we are convinced that a scientific field must include the exchange of stances with the best possible arguments and counter-arguments.
How do we work?
Which are our aims?
The network is based on the workteams created along the Argentinian country and abroad. Each group's structure suppose that a young psychotherapist, a young researcher in psychotherapy and a undergraduate student coordinate the workteam in every region. In addition, each group has autonomy to decide the dynamic, activities and rules for its own workteam according to the resources and motivations of their members. Besides, there is a general coordination which has a leading role in order to promote a unified direction of all the groups as well as to incentivate a collaborative work among the groups.
Our aims are varied, but all of them can be synthesized in seeking to reduce the gap between research and practice in psychotherapy. That would mean that researchers could design and bring forth a relevant work for clinicians (from the scratch to the application of the research) as well as therapists rely heavily on those results obtained from the research process.
​La coordinación general
La coordinación general funciona como un ente que tiene el objetivo de establecer un liderazgo de los grupos de trabajo en pos de trazar un trabajo articulado entre los mismos, asà como favorecer la aparición de nuevos grupos y fortalecer los ya existentes. Por otra parte funcionará como referencia institucional de la RED con el propósito de generar vÃnculos institucionales y potenciar la inserción del método de trabajo y los contenidos producidos por la RED en la comunidad cientÃfica.
Coordinadores generales: Javier Fernández Alvarez, Juan MartÃn Gómez Penedo y Gertrudis Wyss