The trilogy The Spectrum and the Sign articulates a critical-poetic position in psychotherapy. To do this, it revalues ​​our sensitive life which, beginning with our sensoriality, extends towards the dimension of meaning that supplements and bewitches, like a spectrum, the signs in whose abstract content our daily life has been tamed in a stereotyped and well-known way. In this trilogy we explore various aspects of this romance between stability and change, between that sensitive spectrum and the signs alienated in meanings that punctuate the lights and shadows of both our clinical conditions and their treatment models. The exile of the Messiah completes the arc of a post-systemic thought of everyday life, which then includes aesthetics, ethics and, now, a messianic theology. With this, it collects the potentiality of change that inhabits us towards a life that is not only what it already is.

«Marcelo Pakman's work has to do with the nature of human existence but also with rethinking the psychotherapeutic clinic and, from that place, being summoned as "existing" to face questions about doing more than about being, about the “know-how” related to the singularities and textures of the world that touch our aesthetic consciousness when they accompany the appearance of images of the world».
Carlos González Díez, family psychotherapist, Azores