Infidelity: a maze with an end:Constructed reflections through the therapeutic process

Abstract

Objective: to describe the reflections built in therapeutic spaces by couples that have experienced

infidelity and the professionals that support these intervention processes. Methodology: the qualitative approach and the symbolic interactionism as an analysis perspective gave to this investigation

an approach to their actors’ experiences going through the micro, sociocultural, and the world of the

quotidian, where the profound interview and the focal group facilitated the information gathering,

focusing on the qualities of their narratives and the reflection’s construction. Results and conclusion:

the findings allow to suggest that the patients and counselors’’ reflection on infidelity are connected

with cultural mandates, pain experience, and accountability, in which the therapeutic process allows to

understand it as an invitation that the relationship does to its members, to talk and make visible the

discomfort and the displeasure, becoming in an opportunity to reflect and go through a re-signifying

path more hopeful.