MARTINS, M. S. O trabalho do psicólogo na clínica de geriatria: relato de experiência em saúde e desenvolvimento humano [The psychologist practice in a geriatrics clinic: a report regarding health and human development]. Master’s Dissertation – USP. São Paulo (SP), 2011.
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Starting from the psychological care of elderly patients in a public hospital from São Paulo and the experience as psychologist part of its Geriatrics care team, the aims of this Thesis were: define old age such as a human development stage; report regarding the theoretical and methodological particularities about the psychoanalytical approach in geriatrics clinics; the issues of the restrictions imposed by the finitude and death consciousness inside and out the hospital context; the influence of the social historical context over the elderly subjectivity; and the health care team´s relationship features on the Geriatrics Service. It is important that all the team workers have knowledge about Geriatrics and gerontology, such as the good communication between them. The Old Age Psychology is one of the most important guidelines about elderly and the relationship between patients, family and the health care team, especially in an institution where Medicine is prevalent and excludes the subjectivity. The fact that we know there are limitations of the professionals in dealing with the elderly patient, commonly associated with death and the lack of present libidinal investment, requests the creation of initiatives for changes, such as establishing common goals and languages between the different areas, until we gradually achieve the levels of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary communications. Besides the use of particular Psychology instruments, the psychologist, inside the psychoanalysis reference, has the task of reaffirming the importance of including the subjectivity on elderly patient treatment, against all the objectivity of the hospital.