Psychoanalysis in the ICU: beginning with the extensive clinic in the hospital-school

• Grant number: 14/50142-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: April 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Sofio Woolcott
• Grantee: Fernanda Sofio Woolcott
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to objective was to demonstrate my intervention in four analytical situations in which specific patients were, constructed in a way uncommon to the standard psychoanalytic clinic. These exemplify how the therapeutic function of the psychoanalytic method occurred in each of these analytical situations. The method of investigation used is the psychoanalytic method, which in turn has very much been investigated by the multiple fields theory. Were given patients described were, named: an ICU-patient, the ICU patients, a triple patient in an ICU, and a group of nurses the GIFT. In this sense, all four are subjects of my investigation. The expected result was a photograph in the sense given by philosopher Vilém Flusser, about some of the extensions of the psychoanalytic clinic, of the psychoanalytical way of listening and of clinical interpretation. The dissertation demonstrates how the therapeutic function of psychoanalysis was practiced in ICUs as an extended clinic, as well as why it was important to characterize the ICU-patient, in order to converse with ICU patients and with the group of nurses. This investigation is therefore, related, to the psychoanalysis of everyday life, and with the peculiarity of pertaining to an everyday life in ICUs, and it is related to the conception of an extended psychoanalytic clinic. (AU)