OLIVEIRA, F. C. M. Compreendendo a fobia em odontopediatria por meio de intervenções com o Procedimento de Desenhos-Estórias [Comprehending phobia in pediatric dentistry by means of interventions with the Drawing-and-Story Procedure]. 237 p. Master’s Dissertation – Instituto de Psicologia da USP. São Paulo (SP). 2008.
Abstract: this is a qualitative study, seeking to apply, evaluate results and demonstrate the need to employ the Drawing-and-Story Procedure. While understanding and elaborating emotional contents of children and adolescents who fear pediatric-dentistry treatment. This study also aims to examine the nodal points of anguish, conflicts, fantasies and the mechanisms of defense that emerge from the crisis situation. The methodology consisted of the use of clinical interviews with mothers and children, in the clinical observation of the child and of the undertaking of the procedure. A study, divided into 3-12 sections, was carried out with fifteen children, aged from 8 to 14 in a private clinic. Psychoanalysis was used as a system of approach and interpretation. As a modification, related to the original consideration, a free-associated auxiliary therapeutic verbalization was used, as well as a deepening in the emerging material and understanding of the emotional contents. The results were as follows: a) the need to attend the pediatric dentist will intensively exacerbate fantasies, conflicts and self-defense primitive mechanisms; b) the instrument facilitates the contact and deepening of nodal points in conflicts and unconscious anguish; c) the process assists in knowing all conflicts by mobilizing a trend for integrating them. The results have led us to conclude that the Drawing-and-Story Procedure used in this clinical situation has proved to be highly suitable to the whole apprehension of emotional contents in children and adolescents in this crisis situation. This study made the initial assumption in which a crisis situation that precedes the pediatric dentistry consultation in the patients studied has a wide range of types of distress and intense fantasies that should be notified and elaborated within a psychotherapeutic process.