Abstract

HARTMANN, Jane Biscaia; SANTOS, Karolina Reis dos  and  ANTONIASSI, Raquel Pinheiro Niehues. He or She? when it is necessary to conceive, ressignificate and reborn in imagery parents contents - psychological interventions. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2010, vol.13, n.2, pp. 192-209. ISSN 1516-0858.

This paper aims to illustrate, through a psychological view, an experience of professionals in health psychology in interdisciplinary intervention in two cases that report the experiences of parents of children diagnosed with disorder of sex development (DSD). Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which results in a DSD, is a disease that manifests itself through mutation in the CYP21A2 gene, that is responsible for the appearance, at birth, of a clinical condition called ambiguous genitalia, with various degrees of virilization in girls and macrogenitossomia in boys, which may be accompanied by dehydration, cardiac arrhythmia, shock and even death. This is a disease with a incidence of 1:10.325 births in our population. From two cases of infants treated at Hospital Universitário de Maringá (HUM), who had a diagnosis of ambiguous genitalia, the psychology team performed consultations with the parents seaking to listen to the questions arising from diagnosis of their children. In this sense, there was a concern in working with imagery content of each couple in relation to pregnancy and how this happened in relation to the real baby, looking for a resignification of this whole process. Experience in both situations has shown that, in addition to family relationships the desire of parents and the grief over the real baby are intertwined in the outcome of this work to conceive the baby, showing that cases are not simple and that its development will depend on the relationship of the parents and their own life stories.

Keywords : Disorder of sex development; External ambiguous genitalia; Ideal baby x real baby; Resignification.

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