Speech Therapy and Psychoanalysis: repercussions of this interface in the Brazilian speech therapist’s educational background and in the discourse of Speech Therapy teachers

Abstract

Background: the interdisciplinary dialog between Speech Therapy and Psychoanalysis, resulted from the pursuit of clinical problems. In common, both disciplines share clinic, language and search of the relief/overcoming of human suffering. Purpose: investigate which contributions Psychoanalysis has produced in the Speech Therapy education and clinical performance of brazilian speech therapists and analyze the psychoanalytic categories identifi ed in the teachers discourse as the most relevants in their practice. Methods: exploratory study - case study of a group of speech therapists. A survey was made in Speech Therapy courses of brazilian universities in search of teachers/speech pathologists who worked with this interface. For those, depositions were collected regarding the impact of Psychoanalysis in their clinical therapeutic procedures. Quantitative data obtained was submitted to statistical analysis. Concerning qualitative data extracted from the depositions, they were organized according to categorical analysis. Results: Quantitative results showed that such interface is present in 07 from the 08 brazilian regions determined by the Federal Council of Speech Therapy and counts with 33 teachers working on this interface. Qualitative results pointed out changes in the concepts of subject and symptom and use of the concept of transference as iconic theoretical-methodological representation of this interface. Conclusion: although there are no previous researches to offer parameters about quantitative mapping, results of this study stimulates the researches about the interface of Speech Therapy and Psychoanalysis, so as to assess its qualitative dimension, both in the academic professional training and implications of clinical intervention performed by speech therapists adherents of this school.