Psychological Treatment Faced with Social Representations of Physicians

Abstract

The social representations present the image of a group on an object of study. The present work aims to: Understand the perception of the doctors about the psychological treatment. It is a study, qualitative and descriptive. The study was done out with ten physicians in a medical clinic in Campina Grande - Paraíba. The collection instruments were composed of: sociodemographic questionnaire, free association technique and semi-structured interview. In the analysis of the data, Iramuteq software was used specific for textual data. The physicians' perceptions were observed in various subjects. For these the psychological treatment helps in the fight against the excess of medication. They understand the psychologist's work as intervenient and humanized. The physicians perceive that the patient's relationship with the pathology is linked to the emotional, environmental and social aspects, so they pointed out that they refer patients for psychological treatment for several factors, not just mental disorders.