O simbólico do idoso hospitalizado em enfermaria geriátrica: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present study identifies and analyzes the impact of hospitalization in the life of an elderly person, in terms of the possible emotional conflicts emerging in this context hospitalization. This is an experience report of a survey whose data field are analyzed from a psychoanalytic theoretical framework, characterized as a case study during the period of hospitalization of elderly patients in a geriatric ward. As a result, it points to the importance of differentiated listening that the psychologist must provide in attention to verbal and nonverbal requests in patient, given their orders (unconscious) relief , the manifestations of its symbolic anyway, so the professional can give shelter and referral to an intense feeling experienced by the patient according to their abandonment by family, added to the experience of grieving family and significant losses of various orders, consequent to the disease, and that are present in this patient speaks, or even hidden, but that cause anxiety and cravings.