The field diary and its possibilities

Abstract

For the professional mainly the professional in training the recording in field journal allows a reflection and a review of their practices. This article analyzes the field diaries written by psychology trainees, from interventions in a waiting room of a UBS, in the format of talk wheels, during the year 2013. The documentary analysis added the analysis by nuclei of signification, allowed the discussion from three nuclei: Reflections on the preparation of the conversation wheels; Impressions and feelings about the experience of coordinating the wheels; Reflections on the formation of the psychologist. The field diary allows a certain materialization of lived experience, and being a record of experiences allows several situations experienced in the process of forming a psychologist to be rethought with the necessary care.