AMIRALIAN, Maria Lúcia T.M. (1997) – O Procedimento de Desenhos-Estórias como terapia analítica breve [The Drawing-and-Story Procedure as a Brief Analytic Psychotherapy]. São Paulo (SP), Boletim de Psicologia, 47 (106): 41-56.
Studies carried out until the present showed that the Drawing-and Story Procedure (D-E) could be a valuable element in the therapeutic process as a facilitator of the individual’s contact with nuclear conflicts such as anguish, favoring its process of elaboration. These considerations led us to carry out research in which we could verify its therapeutic applications which could reduce treatment time and meet the needs of people with special health problems and disabilities. We consider that the sequence of production units (i.e. doing drawing and telling stories) would facilitate the patient’s process of elaboration, and therefore his instincts investment in the favoring of situations regarding personality reorganization. The treatment of patients would generate guiding principles to characterize this procedure as a brief analytical psychotherapy. Methodological approach: Treatment of four patients within 10 to 24 sessions, without a determinate number of sessions with D-E that would be intercalated with therapeutic verbalizations. Results: Our hypothesis has been confirmed, all cases showed significant changes in behavior. We also verified that when used in a crisis situation, it gives momentary support to the patient and enables him to reevaluate his life situation.