Abstract
This article describes how psychotherapists and clients live the experience of group psychotherapy under the humanistic-phenomenological view executed as part of qualitative study of phenomenological nature, in which Versions of Meaning written by two psychotherapists and ten clients are used as tools. The critical phenomenological analysis of the emerging issues suggests that when people are together seeking growth, in a mutual care and acceptation atmosphere, their life stories meet and a wisdom that is particular of the group arises, guiding it into its own creative way to continue life. The use of critical phenomenological approach provided an approximation to the phenomena with their multiple outlines, in the varied possibilities that a group of people in the process of psychotherapy can reveal, announcing that everything happens in the interlace psychotherapist-clients-world.
Keywords:
group psychotherapy; humanistic phenomenological psychotherapy; lived experience; phenomenological research