Contribuições da arteterapia no cuidado com mulheres em tratamento do câncer de mama

Abstract

This thesis, the fruit of a personal and professional experience with art and of the interest in studies and actions in the field of oncology, was a search-intervention based on phenomenology and gestalt art therapy grounds, which had the purpose of identifying the art therapy care contributions to women in breast cancer treatment, from the meanings given by the participants to the experience with the creative doing. The importance of this study was related to the need for expansion of therapeutic strategies, focused on health promotion of individuals on cancer treatment. Therefore, it was taken into account the existence of psychosocial factors leading to conflict and suffering for women during the cancer diagnosis and treatment, and the female condition of submission and confrontation of breast cancer throw history. The work has also referred to the therapeutic functions of art and the importance of art therapy in oncology. The research was realized on the Núcleo de Acolhimento do Enfermo Egresso- NAEE, where the methodology called Creative Workshop was applied, consisting on the following stages: awareness, free expression, speech drafting, language transpose and evaluation. For collecting data, the patients speech and the women’s creations were used. Seven women in treatment for breast cancer participated the 8 sessions of art therapy, where they underwent experiences on the body and expressive activities. The qualitative type analyses established itself on the basis of expressions by informants, manifest through verbal and plastic language during the creation. The atmosphere of listening and reception, favored during the workshops, permeated the therapeutic process of this search-intervention, contributing to the response of women about the experience on workshops. It was possible to identify many art therapy contributions on the care of women with breast cancer, related to the possibility of interaction with the other, the improvement of the expression capacity the meaning and re-meaning the lived through the contact with creative potential of themselves and the participants acquisition of a more active posture for facing the difficulties of life.