Manifestações psicossomáticas em sujeitos com transtorno mental psicótico

Abstract

This work intended to investigate, through exploratory qualitative study, using the methodology Case Study, the presence or absence of somatoform disorders in subjects with psychotic mental disorders. For this purpose, it was discussed the role of the emotions, such as the fear and the stress, as potential trigger of the somatoform disorders. The field of the research was contextualized, in which users with mental disorders have access to the differentiated treatment of the hospital-centered model, in which they are treated as individuals and citizens with rights. The field research was conducted among individuals of both sexes, over 18 years old, who present psychotic mental disorder and users of a Center of Psychosocial Attention situated in Juiz de Fora, selected by sampling by variation in the types. It was verified that with the psychosis we can also evidence organic manifestations with a psychosomatic character. Although impossible to evidence a cause/effect relation, it is stated the existence of facts, feelings, emotions and reactions that facilitate, direct and converge to the illness of the body. It was confirmed that the surveyed subjects suffer the emotion of fear, stress and that these may be triggers of psychosomatic illnesses.