O imaginário coletivo da equipe de enfermagem sobre a interrupção da gestação / The collective imagination of the nursing staff on termination of pregnancy

Objetivamos investigar o imaginário coletivo de enfermeiras sobre a mulher cuja gravidez foi interrompida, já que o trabalho da enfermagem envolve, além de cuidados técnicos, proximidade inter-humana em situação de fragilidade emocional. Entrevistamos individualmente 16 profissionais, usando o Procedimento Desenhos-Estórias com Tema. Após cada entrevista, redigimos narrativas transferenciais que, com os desenhos-estórias, foram consideradas psicanaliticamente, visando a produção interpretativa de campos de sentido afetivo-emocional. Observamos três campos que permitem a compreensão de que a gravidez interrompida é associada a fantasias de maldade e falta de amor materno, o que pode estar relacionado a eventuais dificuldades no cuidado a estas pacientes...

The collective imaginary of the nursing staff about pregnancy's interruption. We aimed at investigating the collective imaginary of nurses about women whose pregnancy was interrupted, since nursing's work involves technical care and human's proximity in situation of emotional fragility. We interviewed 16 professionals, using the Drawing Stories with Theme. After each interview, we wrote psychoanalytical narratives that, with the drawing stories, were psychoanalytically considered, in order to produce, by interpretation, fields of affective and emotional sense. We observed three fields that allow the comprehension that the interrupted pregnancy is associated with fantasies of evil and lack of maternal love, which may be related to possible difficulties in caring those patients...

Dynamical quantification of schizophrenic speech.

Schizophrenic speech has been studied both at the clinical and linguistic level. Nevertheless, the statistical methods used in these studies do not specifically take into account the dynamical aspects of language. In the present study, we quantify the dynamical properties of linguistic production in schizophrenic and control subjects. Subjects' recall of a short story was encoded according to the succession of macro- and micro-propositions, and symbolic dynamical methods were used to analyze these data. Our results show the presence of a significant temporal organization in subjects' speech. Taking this structure into account, we show that schizophrenics connect micro-propositions significantly more often than controls. This impairment in accessing language at the highest level supports the hypothesis of a deficit in maintaining a discourse plan in schizophrenia.

Autobiographical memory in major depression: a comparison between first-episode and recurrent patients.

Autobiographical memory in depression is characterized by an increase in general memory evocation. The aim of this study is to compare autobiographical memory in patients with a first depressive episode and in recurrent patients before and after recovery, using Williams' and Scott's autobiographical memory test. Our results show an increase of the number of general memories only with positive cue words in both groups of patients during the depressive episode. After clinical improvement, this specificity remains in recurrent patients who, in addition, recall more general memories for negative words. By contrast, patients with a first depressive episode are no longer different from controls. These results show both an overgeneralization and a deficit in positive memory access during the depressive episode, whatever the number of previous episodes. Moreover, recurrence chronically modifies access to emotional memories.