Uma reflexão sobre a função terapêutica no estudo de caso de uma paciente com queixa vocal

Abstract

This work's main goal is to consider the speech-language therapy function, according to Donald Wood Winnicott's theoretical assumptions. This paper intends to help the speech-language therapist put himself in a position which allows taking into consideration, when doing his job, the patient’s singularity and particularities. This should also be considered when using specific technical literature, which means presenting it so that the patient may appropriate it in a creative way. That way, the speech therapy setting becomes not only a symptom suppression space, but also – and especially – a promoter of the patient’s happening as a total individual. Based on tasks performed by the mother in a relationship with her baby, which enable the baby’s happening and humanizing. Winnicott points out holding which will foster integration, object presentation which enables the experience of realization, and handling responsible for inserting the psyche into the body, as guides for human relations, including the therapeutical relation. As intertwined and unfinished elements, since a human bring never finishes his own constitution, these tasks may enable the human happening, and therefore they could guide the speech-language therapy setting. Aiming at investigating this possibility, we carried out a case study of a patient with voice disorder. ln fact, we observed that, besides voice improvement, she has flourished as an individual, because the speech-language therapy procedure, based on the tasks, which have been mentioned, focused on the patient's unique needs