An experience of jungian group psychotherapeutic assistance, with an emphasis in the corporal dimension, in the context of brazilian public health system

Abstract

This study investigated the relevance of using a modality of Jungian group psychotherapy according to Sandor’s bodyorganismic method, in view of the demand for mental health presented by users of a Basic Health Unity of SUS – the Brazilian UnifiedHealth System. Tree open psychotherapy groups were composed having seven adult patients and observed for a year. The qualitativeanalysis of results based on the comparison between the dynamics of these three groups, confronting the points of convergence betweenthem. We concluded that this kind of psychotherapy made possible a greater opening and adhesion to the psychotherapeutic process,with the establishment of very solid bonds of confidence. The following psychosocial transformations were observed in the period ofa year: a greater definition and integration of the physical image of subjects and groups; a reduction or elimination of initial physicalsymptoms; modifications as for the form of thinking about the social-economic conditions and how to act in this context; a greateropening to social contact and to physical interaction by patients, as well as a recovering of subjects work capacity and creative potential.