TACHIBANA, M. Fim do mundo: o imaginário coletivo da equipe de enfermagem sobre a gestação interrompida [End of the world: the collective imaginary or the nursing team about interrupted pregnancy]. 2011. 186 p. Doctoral Thesis – PUCAMP. Campinas (SP), 2011.
Available at: http://www.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br/tde_arquivos/6/TDE-2011-04-15T115045Z-1697/Publico/Miriam%20Tachibana.pdf
Abstract: The occurrence of a pregnancy’s interruption requires not only medical and hospital care, but also emotional support, aiming at the patient’s welfare and her ability to welcome other babies that she may have in the future. During hospitalization, the patient is under the care of an obstetrical nursing staff and therefore her experiences are affected by the attitudes and behaviors of these professionals. Thus, our project has the objective of investigating the collective imaginary of the obstetrical nursing staff towards the patient who has miscarried. We conducted individual interviews with sixteen professionals from an obstetrics clinic of a university hospital, using the Thematic-Drawing-and-Story Procedure as dialogue mediator. After each interview, psychoanalytic narratives were written and were considered psychoanalytically together with the drawings-stories of the participants, aiming to capture interpretive fields of affective-emotional sense. We captured patterns denominated “End of the world”, “Eternal emptiness” and “Monstrosity”, which allows the perception that, in the collective imaginary, the interrupted pregnancy is perceived as a phenomenon humanly unacceptable, that would present apocalyptic traits associated with the evil and harmful motivations towards the pregnant patient. The overall picture shows that the nursing staff, as a human collective, might face difficulties in adopting and sustaining supportive behavior to this type of patient. This situation may be overcome only if the instruction and enlightenment of these professionals is supplemented with clinical psychological care that will allow them to perform their tasks more calmly and maturely.