Crianças com leucemia: estudo das condições emocionais pela arteterapia numa abordagem junguiana

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Piccoli, Ana Paula Bonilha
• Orientador(a): Neder, Mathilde
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia: Psicologia Clínica
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Arteterapia; Leucemia infantil; Psicologia junguiana
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Art therapy; Childhood leukemia; Jungian psychology
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19545

The childhood cancer corresponds to a diverse group of diseases whose common element uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells, and can occur anywhere in the body. Leukemias are the most common malignancies in childhood. The child is affected in its entirety by the reality of treatment and this is an important moment in its development. the benefits that promotes art therapy are known in the manifestation of psychological activity promoting access to internal content, increasing the well being of the individual and allowing application in diagnostic and therapeutic intervention approach. The aim of this study was that the effects of art therapy on the expression of emotional experiences of children in the treatment of leukemia. The effects studied were the feelings experienced by children with leukemia. We conducted a field survey and the results were treated qualitatively. Participants were four children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, between 5 and 8 years of age, of both sexes, attended an outpatient specialties of a provincial city of São Paulo. The instruments used were: Questionnaire socio-demographic and clinical history script. five sessions of art therapy directed with each child were held. The preparation of the sessions was to develop a technique of psychological research by art therapy, which can be associated with other techniques used in the clinical context and the imagistic content of the productions was analyzed in the light of Jungian psychology. One of the aspects discussed in this research is that expressive activities favored the expression of emotions and feelings of children about their disease process and also other aspects involving their emotional development. In this sense, there was contact between aspects of the conscious and the unconscious. The use of art through the proposed modalities: drawing, collage, painting and modeling made it possible to observe the establishment of emotional bond between her and her work. Some images were recurrent, as referring to polarities, such as life and death, death and rebirth, rain and sun, night and day. These images seem to appear as compensation ahead the imbalance arising from the process of becoming ill, as the regulatory function of the psyche. The making art and think about the production seem to have provided connection to channel the emotions of the participating children. It was noticed also that the sessions possibly helped children to develop their disease process. With regard to images and recurring colors, raise imagine that these are the manifestation of personal content and groups of children. Note that the open space where it ensured the manifestation of content through art was paramount to the imagistic content could be manifested.