Abstract:
From remote times, men and women have resorted to one another to gain some type of parameter for issues which involved problems afflicting their daily life. As time passed, some figures occupied this space, such as elders, shamans and healers. In modernity, the ecclesiastical figures, counselors and psychologists have occupied this space. The modern notions of subjectivity based on processes of subjectivation which are specific for modernity, post-modernity and hypermodernity are moments/places in which the human being is currently found. Needs, suffering and disorders are arising which are ravaging humanity. Now there is a declared demand which needs someone who has as a profession/office that of counseling. The counseling processes arise based on modern demands. Pastoral and psychological counseling have come to partially have the role of tending to these demands. In this sense, the proposal was to study counseling in its pastoral and psychological areas in current times and caregiving as the intersection between both, to exercise counseling where the focus is on the encounter and the relation between human beings. Bibliographic research was necessary to understand how one can comprehend these two forms of counseling, as well as the notions of caregiving and its dimension of encounter. We understood that these two forms of counseling are within the notions of Caregiving and intersect in it. One understood the notion of caregiving as participating in cosmovisions. In this sense the Theology of incarnation offers a cosmovision or a genesis and Psychology propitiates an understanding and cosmovision based on the work of Carl Rogers and the Theory of Chaos. Thus, we conceived that Caregiving is in the universe, it is a creative, generating, constitutive and regenerating participant and force. It is in the cosmos, it is in humanity. It is pre-ontological and ontological. In Caregiving there is the possibility for encounter between humans, with the immanent and with the transcendent. Therefore, the relation and intersection between pastoral and psychological counseling is in the caregiving, without, however, one or the other losing its peculiarities, and, at the same time, constituting themselves in their own ways of making themselves available to the human being, to the other, in their immanence and transcendence.
