Freedom of expression: ethical exercise and psychological clinic

Abstract

This article reflects and proposes strategies that guide us in understanding the phenomena of freedom of expression as an opportunity for the phenomenological ethical exercise in the face of health and psychological illness. As we understand that issues involving human freedom are current and urgent for public debate, the challenges of collaborating for the discussion of the theme of freedom of expression and the exercise of ethics in the psychological care of men and women are transformed into an exercise of well live in our country, condition of humans involved with each other. The reasoning that inspires the discussions in this article is guided by the perspective of Martin Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology, his Hermeneutic Phenomenology, and thus introduces to the discussion of the limits of freedom of expression, the theme of existential freedom constitutive of the human entity that questions itself about the sense of being in their ways of being in the world with others. This original and descriptive work is proposed as a hermeneutic exercise in understanding the phenomenon of freedom as it is presented daily in Western democratic socieies, understanding that the experience of freedom is shown to correspond to the modes of health and psychological illness. The article is organized from some paths of reflection: Freedom of expression and information; Demystifying similarities and disparities; Dialogues between freedom and democracy; Freedom and determinism (universalism and possibilities); Freedom and responsibility; and Understand freedom as a human opportunity to be ethical. We defend the idea that freedom of expression composes the multiplicities of freedoms. In turn, they are ways of understanding human freedom that deserve the attention of Psychologists and citizens in order to foster an up-to-date, reflective reading that involves care so that we do not lose sight of the human that we are all, including differences and similarities.