Biblioterapia: um recurso terapêutico na humanização hospitalar

Abstract

That monograph presents a theoretical-documental approach of practices and knowledge of the biblioterapy, with emphasis in the therapeutic paper of the reading. The study has the objective of analyzing, starting from the experiences implemented at hospitais, the contribution of the biblioterapy activities as form of humanizing the attendance in the hospitais. It presents the report of the reading practices as auxiliary in the cure process through different times, the evolution of that practice in Brazil and exhibition of concepts on the theme. It analyzes the therapeutic function of the reading and elements of the theory of psychoanalysis. It discusses subjects related to the biblioterapy in the humanize of the attendance at hospitais, approaching your theories. The biblioterapy is examined in the context of the humanize in the hospitais through projects and programs developed with the application of that therapeutic tool. The research uses bibliographical sources and reports of field researches, with two case studies; an accomplished at the Academical Hospital of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, with the objective of living the experience of the biblioterapy practice with hospitalized patients; the second the project of the Course of Biblioteconomy of the Federal University of Ceará, in the Infantile Hospital Albert Sabin, with the objective of investigating the paper of the reading as important element to reduce the children's cancer victims suffering. The analysis of the report of those two cases showed that the biblioterapy is a potent therapeutic tool, could be associated to several moments of the practice of health. The author recommends that that instrument can be used by the professionals of the biblioterapy, because it is of great value in the patient's psychological restructuring and it contributes in the humanize of the attendance at hospitais.