Medicina, psicoterapia y cultura en Juan Rof Carballo

Resumo

Tries to bring this humanist, psychotherapist Spanish doctor back, for the Social and Human Science. The author stands up for three aspects: firstly, the originality the author shows in his medical profession, how he tries a properly and exclusively physical and chemical position in the concept of illness that can only occur recognising the psychological and spiritual aspects and their influence on getting ill. That is how he desires to show his idea of Anthropological and Psychosomatic Medicines. Secondly, he wants to show how he gets an incredible connection between the human and natural sciences. Rof expounds the best that the deep psychotherapy has ever given to the human knowledge in the XX century, in a rich and intriguing way, in a creative synthesis (his creative way of thinking about the person, the warp, the violence, the tenderness, and the relationship between generations). With Rof these XX century psychological contributions are firstly thought, joined and displayed in a limpid Spanish, and they are put in connection with scientific, philosophical, artistic and theological knowledges, and placed in a wide philosophical thought area. Finally, the third aspect tries to bring up that we are in front of a wise person, not a systematic philosopher, but an essayist, one of the best Spanish thinkers, with original and shocking pages. With Rof, a Christian humanist, the human sciences find some keys from a real cultural side, whose concept of the man, of his biology and spirit, opens, to simply positivist culture, to the question about God. With Rof the mind doesn’t give up or refuse to the highest man’s possibilities. With Rof we can look at the man in his closest relationship with work, family, culture, art and the last concept of the person and the religious.