Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Walter Lisboa  and  RODRIGUES, Avelino Luiz. About Psychoanalytic Practice in Hospital Wards. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2014, n.41, pp. 157-165. ISSN 0100-3437.

The participation of psychologists in hospitals and health institutions has been increasing significantly. These professionals have been working with patients in wards, ICU, emergency rooms, and so on. Consequently, the various fields of knowledge that exist in the complex range of Psychology are required to provide answers and tools for psychological support of health professionals, and mainly of hospitalized patients. Thus, this paper proposes a reflection on how psychoanalysis can help in the contact with patients, once it offers a number of recommendations regarding the setting, contract and the contact with the patient, besides that, it enables the management of major affective aspects that may further destabilize the sick person, who is usually emotionally fragile by one clinical condition. The text mentions a brief history of the incursion of Psychology and Psychoanalysis in the health field, highlighting a fertile field, and then discusses the use of the main psychoanalytic techniques in patient care on the wards. It concludes that psychoanalytic work is possible in such an environment, since some techniques are adjusted and comply with some minimum conditions such as listening, attention to transference processes and, above all, concern about the role of subject the patient should play.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Health Psychology; Hospital Wards.

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