Psychology and Psychoanalysis in a Health Institution

Abstract

This article presents partial aspects of a research with a team of psychologists, theoretically and technically oriented by psychoanalysis, working in a children's hospital. The main themes, organized in categories, were extracted from halfstructured interviews. The most important worries, emotions and actions that characterizes this team are discussed using quantitative data and trying to observe qualitative aspects of this study. 549 sense units (s.u.) were organized in 36 variants that were grouped in three great categories: Action, Emotion and Clients. Action (60% ofthe s.u.) is related to the institutional work and its characteristics, Emotion (27% ofthe u.s.) is related to the personalliving experiences, emotions, fantasies and the interviewers defenses and Client (13% of the s.u.) is related to the children and their families. The analyze of this distribution indicate how does this group's imaginary is organized.