O psicólogo no ambiente do hospital e a afetividade: uma construção de sentidos sobre a morte

Abstract

The death is present in the hospitals since the beginning of its creation. Health professionals deal with its presence in their daily routine as a contingency inherent in the health practice. The presented research aimed at understanding the relationship between the psychologist and the hospital environment by building this way about the process of death, taking as reference the affectivity category (emotions and feelings). We adopted the theoretical framework of social and environmental psychology based on cultural-historical approach and affection as possible ways to achieve the complexity of human phenomena. The field of the research was conducted in four public hospitals in the city of Fortaleza with the participation of six psychologists. The instruments used were the affective maps and the interview. The collected data was subjected to content analysis and grouped into three themes: death, therapeutic care and hospital. Four images in the hospital environment were formed through affective maps: contrast, suffering, destruction, pleasantness and inhering. The textual production relates death to the feelings and emotions of the psychologists in the inter-relationship with the hospital environment. The results showed a trend to a more positive estimate of the hospital by the images of pleasantness and belonging, even though the negative estimates of the hospital attended to the contrasting images of destruction and suffering dealing with the death processes. These processes required psychic pain in professional researchers participants. The death, especially in the early stages of development, was the key point to this suffering.