Psychoanalysis, health and human development in the practice of an analyst in the neonatal intensive care unit. / Psicanálise, saúde e desenvolvimento humano na prática profissional do analista em unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal

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2009

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Based on the observations of an analyst in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), an articulated set of knowledge and clinical practice in psychoanalysis has been built through the work developed in a hospital. The situations experienced by newborns, by parents and by the health team mark the history of these people who passed through there. The concepts of anguish and helplessness, researched in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, enabled rereading the extremes of life and death, paradoxically present in that scenario and its characters: a tense scenario, full of conflicts and anxieties to be identified, in the midst of helplessness as a human situation and condition. The NICU poses a challenge to the analyst who chooses to work there among wires, tubes, whistles, monitors, and high technologic equipment, rules, glances and prohibitions. Considering the baby and his/her family as interlocutors allows a special communication that changes the unspeakable horror in which they live into one that can be named and given significance. The path to the construction of the analysts role in this scenario is presented and outlined in its limits, scope and possibilities of action.

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health neonatology human development saúde desenvolvimento humano psychoanalysis neonatologia infants psicanálise unidade de terapia intensiva bebês intensive care units

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